Fact1: desolate state serves as backdrop to beginning of country 's greatest civil war, Fact2: eight-year-old boy was forced to learn means of surviving in wild, Fact3: group was prevented from going further, Fact4: Wakasa not stay in same shelter with Asura only returning to bring him food, Fact5: monk is seen witnessing death of village and again
Output: Mid 15thcentury Japan. Flood, drought and famine have transformed the landscape of Kyoto into a barren wasteland. More than 80,000 people perished between 1459 and 1461. This desolate state serves as the backdrop to the beginning of the countrys greatest civil war. In this era, a boy is born a beast. Abandoned as an infant, the eightyearold boy wandered around the world with his axe and was forced to learn the means of surviving in the wild. In time, he learns to kill and eat humans as well. He stumbled upon a monk who he intended to eat but the monk repelled him. The monk gave him temporary shelter and food because he sees Asura within this boy, naming him Asura. He teaches Asura the Buddha chant hoping one day Asura would understand it and leaves the boy on the side of the road the next morning. Meanwhile, a man named Shichiro with four boys were seen carrying a humongous log to their village. When one of the boys was physically strained, Asura attacks the group but was repelled by Shichiro. He follows them as they pass through a village but the group was prevented from going any further. The boys of the village threw rocks at them, eventually hitting Asura who was behind the group. Asura, angered, attacks the boy leader. The boys father, Jito, chases after Asura. He falls off a cliff into a pile of corpses after being cornered by Jito but was saved by Wakasa, a girl from the same village. Wakasa gives him shelter and food but cannot stay in the same shelter with Asura, only returning to bring him food. He has begun to grow extremely attached to her, often stalking her in her village where he cannot be seen by others. One night as Asura waits outside in the night of rain for Wakasa, he sees her silhouette through a grassfield. However, Wakasa was not meeting with Asura but rather Shichiro and the two talks about leaving the village. In a fit of jealousy and rage, Asura grabs an axe and attacks Shichiro. Once again, the boy was forced to wander again when Wakasa demands that he leave. Shortly after his departure, the village was flooded with minimal survival. The monk is later seen witnessing the death of the village and again, stumbles upon Asura. However, this time, Asura speaks in the human tongue he learned from Wakasa, cursing himself and wishing he wasnt born. The monk lectures him about humanity; he chops off his right arm, gives it to Asura, and provokes him to consume it, scaring Asura away instead. In the mean time, food has become scarce. Wakasas father was given the choice of selling her for a high price by another villager but was chased away. Shichiro provides whatever food he can scrimmage for Wakasa, but it is still not enough as Wakasa goes around the village asking for any food that can be spared. Shichiros desperation forced him to resort to stealing from other homes while Wakasa lays dying in her home, including her father. Seeing this, Asura returns to the village and kills Jitos horse, offering the horses flesh to her and her father; she refuses to take it, believing it to be human flesh no matter what he said. Meanwhile, the villagers were informed by Wakasas father that Asura is in the village and that he killed Jitos horse. Along with Jito as their leader, the villagers give chase with torches. Jito dies shortly after Asura ambushed him and he continues to run across a rope bridge. Before he could reach the other side, the villagers burned the rope holding the bridge and Asura falls into the river. Winter arrives; Wakasa is dead and her corpse is being carried by Shichiro and four village boys presumably to her burial place. They passed by Asura, who somehow survived the fall but Asura does not look at her corpse. The monk narrates the beauty of life as Asura is shown carving a wooden statue with his head shaved, indicating he became a monk. In the postcredit scene, the land is seen rich and fertile again with white doves flying above.