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is a 2012 Japanese anime film directed by Keiichi Sato and based on a manga of the same name by George Akiyama. Asura tied for the Audience Award for Best Animated Feature at the 16th Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal. ==Plot== Mid 15th-century Japan. Flood, drought and famine have transformed the landscape of Kyoto into a barren wasteland. More than 80,000 people perished between 1459 and 1461. This desolate state serves as the backdrop to the beginning of the country's greatest civil war. In this era, a boy is born a beast - Asura. Abandoned as an infant, an eight-year-old boy wandered around the world with his axe and was forced to learn the means of surviving in the wild. In time, he learns to kill and eat humans as well. He stumbled upon a monk who he intended to eat but the monk repelled him. The monk gave him temporary shelter and food because he sees Asura within this boy, naming him Asura. He teaches Asura the Buddha chant hoping one day Asura would understand it and leaves the boy on the side of the road. Meanwhile, a man named Shio with four boys were seen carrying a humongous log to their village. When one of the boys was physically strained, Asura attacks the group but was again repelled by the man. He follows them as they pass through a village but the group was prevented from going any further. The boys who had stopped the small group threw rocks at them, eventually hitting Asura who was behind them. Asura, angered, attacks the boy leader and his father, a lord of the village, chases after Asura. He falls down a cliff into a pile of dead bodies after being cornered by the lord and he was saved by Wakasa, a girl from the village of the boys who attacked the small group. Wakasa gives him shelter and food but cannot stay in the same shelter with Asura, only returning to bring him food. He has begun to grow extremely attached to her, often stalking her in her village where he cannot be seen by others. One night as Asura waits outside in the night of rain for Wakasa, he sees her silhouette through a grassfield. Wakasa, however, was not meeting with Asura but rather Shio and the two talks about leaving the village. Asura, jealous and angry, grabs the axe outside of the shelter attacks Shio. After the attack on Shio and Wakasa demanding him to leave the village, Asura once again wanders into the world. His wrath, as a metaphor, brought down a flood and flooded the village. The monk is later seen witnessing the death of the village and again, stumbles upon Asura. However, this time, Asura speaks in the human tongue he learned from Wakasa, cursing himself and wishing he wasn't born. The monk lectures him about humanity; he chops off his right arm and gives it to Asura and demands that if he will not give up the beast inside himself then he should consume the arm as a beast, forcing Asura to run away. In the mean time, food has become scarce. Wakasa's father was given the choice of selling her for a high price by another villager but was chased away. Shio provides whatever food he can scrimmage for Wakasa, but it is still not enough as Wakasa goes around the village asking for any food that can be spared. Shio's desperation forced him to resort to stealing from other homes while Wakasa lays dying in her home, including her father. Seeing this, Asura returns to the village and kills the horse of the lord residing in the village and offers the horse's flesh to Wakasa and her father, but Wakasa refuses to take it, believing it to be human flesh no matter what he said. Meanwhile, the villagers who are chasing Asura for the death of a horse were informed of the boy's presence by Wakasa's father in their home and ambushed him, but he still managed to escape. The villagers resumed the chase with torches, led by the village leader but ultimately dies after Asura's ambush in the grass field. He continues to run across a rope bridge but the villages burned the rope holding the bridge and Asura falls into the river. Winter arrives; Wakasa is dead and her corpse is being carried by Shio and four village boys presumably to her burial place. They passed by Asura, who seemed to have survived the fall but Asura does not look. The monk narrates the beauty of life as Asura is shown carving a wooden statue with his head shaved, indicating he became a monk. In the post-credit scene, the land is seen rich and fertile again with white doves flying above. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Asura (2012 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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