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Utsu no Miko starring Toru Furuya, Eiko Yamada, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Kyoko Hamura has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 25 min, and a scheduled release date of .
It received a user score of 60/100 on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 2 knowledgeable users.
Curious about the story behind it? Here's the plot: "In the chaos of the Jinshin-no-Ran civil war of 762, a child with a small horn in his forehead was born. The child's mother condemned him as an oni and cast him away. An elderly shūgenja woman claimed the child and named him Utsunomiko, or 'Divine Child of the Heavens', telling Miko that his horn smybolizes the union of heaven and earth. Miko matured in the wilderness learning the ways of Shugendō, and soon started venturing into villages out of curiosity. He found that the common people of the villages live in poverty and suffering, and began using his spiritual powers to help them. But his anger at the self-serving rulers and their petty power-struggles grew until he came into open conflict with the Imperial Court, setting Miko down a long path as a champion of the oppressed." .
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The story is set in the late Asuka Period to the Nara Period, and follows the trials of the title character Utsunomiko (usually shortened to Miko), the offspring of the kami of the north star.
