Religious con-men have probably been around as long as religion itself, though we have no way of knowing what scams fake shamans were running in the caves.

For every Jesus, who had a low opinion of the rich and left little more than a strangely stained burial shroud (if that) on his demise, there have been dozens of priests, ministers and gurus raking it in, living it up and believing in nothing but the endless gullibility of the human race.

One is Rui (Tatsuya Fujiwara), the wealthy, cosseted leader of a dubious New Religion and the enigmatic hero of Toshiaki Toyoda's oddly titled "I'm Flash!" Based on Toyoda's original script, the film is his third in a row to promise deep thinks about Big Issues, but feels at once overblown and underdeveloped, as though Toyoda had devoted more attention to the showy art direction and the surface, rather than the meaning, of what he was trying to say.