Mushishi (2006)

A mysterious and occasionally eerie live action adaptation of the long running manga. The film follows Ginko, a Mushishi (bug master), as he travels the land healing ailments, restoring the natural order where he can.
The bugs of the title aren't your typical garden variety creepy crawlies, they’re an ethereal essence that exist tenuously, visible to certain people.
Ginko’s story has relevance to the stories of the people he meets on his journey, and by helping them he begins to help himself.
It drifts off course a little but always finds its way back. I was fully enchanted by the fairytale nature of it all.

3½ healing lights out of 5