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Released , 'The Phoenix' stars Jun Fubuki, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Toshinori Omi, Masao Kusakari The movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 17 min, and received a user score of 56 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 8 top users.
Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advisor Sumuke, hire Yumihiko of Matsuro to hunt the phoenix so that Queen Himiko, sister of Susano-O can have eteranal life." .
Phoenix Collection
Phoenix was Tezuka's life work as well as one of his representative works. He explored philosophical themes of "life and death" and "reincarnation" in depth by depicting stories developed around Phoenix, the immortal life-form beyond time and space. Phoenix navigates the readers by traveling back and forth, between past and future, through the series. Tezuka reflected his own historical view and prevision for future, also tackled a vast-scale question of what universe is.