Everyman

Grandmother's Footsteps (1981x6)

Air date: Feb 08, 1981

This film is the story of a young woman from Japan who seems to be fulfilling a very strange religious destiny. Kiyokazu Kitamura, who is 30, Western-educated and an accomplished musician, is the grand-daughter of a woman who founded a new worldwide religion in 1945. Kiyokazu is her successor - the spiritual leader of three-quarters of a million people and known to her followers as Himegamisama - 'Princess Goddess'. Yet she admits that she does not feel she herself is divine and the role she has to play is a great strain.