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...capture and kill "Butcher" Li (Jiang Wen), a once-respected army officer accused of treason because he refused to kill women and children in a raid. Lai Xi and Li make an uneasy truce long enough to escort a general's daughter (Vicky Zhao Wei) and a Buddhist monk to safety. Can they escape the pursuit of evil Master An (Wang Xueqi), the preening aesthete and superslick fighter who stands in their path...
Looking in each of the four primary directions a young man faces a choice: an elderly man, a scabrous woman, a corpse or a monk. Rejecting old age, disease and death, the man, Siddhartha, chooses the life of the monk and goes on to enlightenment in one of the key moments in the story of the Buddha. Thoughtful comix readers can relate to such limited choices. Even among the more ambitious works of graphic literature there have been few explorations of spirituality or attempts at creating a distinct morality. But now a radical, epic, ambitious, brilliant option presents itself: Osamu...
...hides his caste to become the adopted son of a general. Along the way he befriends Tatta, a cheeky little boy of the lowliest pariah caste. Tatta has the remarkable ability to take over the minds of animals, making him the target of intense interest by a young monk, Naradatta. With tragic consequences Chapra's secret eventually comes out, setting up the themes of escaping cycles of destiny and the futility of violence. Chapra, Tatta and many other characters too numerous to mention are wholly fictional and original to Tezuka. Besides adding levels of narrative sophistication, this gives Tezuka room...
...prince away from his palace of luxury to experience the real world. There he meets Migaila, a bandit that he falls in love with. Returning home, though, Siddhartha is compelled to marry a princess and struggles with the calling to become king of a defenseless country or a monk...
...Botticelli paintings and six drawings, plus a dozen works by contemporaries like Filippo Lippi and Piero di Cosimo, all working during the late 15th century, when Florence blossomed in the humanist atmosphere of the Medici court before being swallowed up by the fire-and-brimstone fervor of the Dominican monk Savonarola. Along with several of Botticelli's delicate Madonnas, the show's highlights include a colored-ink Map of the Inferno illustration for Dante's The Divine Comedy, and St. Augustine in his cell, a fresco for Florence's Ognissanti church later transposed to canvas. It will go to Florence...