'Inu-Oh,' a tale of cutting-edge artists in ancient times, is like nothing you've seen
by Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times
Dec 01, 2022
3 minutes
"Inu-Oh," the animated film depicting 14th-century Japan, starts conventionally with the look and exposition one might expect of such a venture. After all, it's adapted from Hideo Furukawa's historical novel "Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh," set during a period of warring clans in the 1300s. Still, there are hints early on that this won't be like other period epics: It focuses on biwa priests and Noh performers. There's a fleeting glimpse of a baby born impossibly deformed. And a mystical accident leaves Tomona,
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