Transcending Dimensions

A hitman pursues a mysterious Japanese ascetic, encountering an entanglement of mystical power and spacetime along the way. Blending science fiction with other genre elements, Toshiaki Toyoda brings new vitality to his “Mt. Resurrection Wolf” series with this film.

A challenge to chaos, resurrection, sorcery, love and a spaceship meet in Toyoda Toshiaki’s Transcending Dimensions, a lavish story that transcends time and space, expanding the stage into the universe.

Monk Rosuke seems to have been brought under the spell of Master Hanzo, a powerful ascetic who believes in the resurrection of wolves. Rosuke’s lover Nonoka brings a sleek assassin Shinno to Hanzo’s mountain monastery to get a better look at the mysterious man, who demands a finger in return for helping followers transcend onto a new dimension. There, they meet sorcerer Ajari, and a battle of sorcery between Rosuke, Shinno and Ajari begins. And it’ll take you on a journey traversing spacetime to unravel the truth behind the shrine and the role each of the four protagonists plays before it’s too late.

Transcending Dimensions sums up the ideas tested in “Mt. Resurrection Wolf” series, consisting of four short films, into a unique stand-alone film, pensive, wayward and slightly absurd. The Japanese cult filmmaker mixes science fiction elements and the genre-bending usage of Japanese asceticism and challenges viewers to piece together all the elements along with the protagonists in the pursuit of truth.

– Olivia Popp

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