Enlightenment Guaranteed (2002, Dvd)

Uwe and Gustav are two middle-aged brothers whose lives are a mess; Uwe?s wife just left him and Feng Shui consutant, Gustav, is feeling unfulfilled. They decide to travel to Japan for a retreat to a Zen monastery. En route, their mid-life crisis turns into a midnight crisis when they get lost in Tokyo?s neon jungle and cannot find their way back to the hotel. It?s down and out in Asia?s brave new world. Having lost their passports, credit cards, directions and with no Yen in their pocket, they wander through a kaleidoscopic alien environment where the most routine tasks become major, often comical, challenges. They survive by their wits and certainly never expect the Zen concept of ?leaving everything behind? to be like this. The brothers? eventual arrival at the monastery is an immersion of a more subtle kind. The mundane and the sublime - where does the one stop and the other start? Still, the enigma of enlightenment keeps them going. Although it often seems just within their grasp, it continues to elude them. And yet, even they don?t fully realize it, at the very core of their being, it?s changing them....