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"Why can't people escape the strife, pain, and death of this world? I hope you will find a way to be free from suffering." With these words, Dogen's mother, Iko (played by Takahashi Keiko), passed away. That year, Dogen was only 8 years old. 16 years later, Dogen (played by Nakamura Kantaro), in search of Buddhist truth, traveled to the Song Dynasty. However, here he found that many monks were corrupted by bribes from the government officials, and the situation was rife with corruption.