24 Eyes and the shrine...

So another of Shodoshima's claims to fame is that the movie 24 eyes was filmed there. All about a school teacher who taught the only 12 kids in this little village! Apparently quite a moving flick. Anyway, so we visited the village where it was filmed and everything was kept pretty much the way it was in the movie. Kind of creepy with this music track of little children singing playing over and over and over again! Very interesting...

Movie poster for 24 Eyes

I tried to get the beach in the background of this pic! But it's all blurry! Boo...

A hawk/eagle(?)

We also visited a shrine in a cave! We went in, wrote down our prayers/wishes and had two monks chanting/praying for us! It was a really cool experience, the setting was fabulous and in the back of the temple are these windows so you can see how high up in the mountains you are!

Entrance to the Cave Shrine

These are the windows in the back of the temple