Prayer Beads — Season 1, Episode 5: Mushroom Hunting
Mystery • 30 min • 1 season, 9 episodes
Episode synopsis
Kuni, Yuu, and Maki meet in an online chat room and decide to go mushroom hunting. (?!) While climbing the mountain, they meet an old man who tells them that no one ventures into the area due to a local legend about a witch. Undaunted, the friends continue their quest. They soon meet a kindly old woman in the woods. There's nothing suspicious about that, right?
About Prayer Beads
Prayer Beads, also called "omoinotama" or "nunju" in Japanese, are the small wooden beads strung on a loop used in Buddhist worship. The number of beads is typically 108, corresponding to the 108 earthly desires or sins that the beads have the power to extinguish. "Prayer Beads" is a series of 9 episodes of 30-minute dramas strung together, with the characters in each episode designing one thread of fate. The short independent episodes are skillfully linked together to become one story. The protagonists' dreams and fears and feelings about this life are all taken up and spun around to reach a dramatic conclusion in the final story.