In several Asian cultures, mourners write the names of the deceased on paper slips, attach them to a paper lantern, and watch them as they fly away - the souls of the deceased elevated to heaven.
This very effective Vietnamese movie, set in what looks like the early Nguyen dynasty, based on a folk tale, sees a mother-and-child yearning for the return of the father from war, faced with a supernatural challenge when a gate to the underworld is opened:
Chieu Xuan, who plays the mother, was in the pretty decent Soul Eater / Ke An Hon (2023):
This very effective Vietnamese movie, set in what looks like the early Nguyen dynasty, based on a folk tale, sees a mother-and-child yearning for the return of the father from war, faced with a supernatural challenge when a gate to the underworld is opened:
Chieu Xuan, who plays the mother, was in the pretty decent Soul Eater / Ke An Hon (2023):
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