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Children of the Great Buddha

Overview

The final film in the Beehive trilogy, Children of the Great Buddha chronicles war orphans working as tour guides among the looming statues and temples of Japan’s ancient capital of Nara. Shimizu’s uncharacteristic hands-on approach to the film’s cinematography frames the sacred objects as “very real agents” in the children’s threadbare lives, resulting in a deeply moving and spiritual work that fittingly concludes his orphan saga.

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DIRECTOR

Hiroshi Shimizu

COUNTRIE

Japan

RELEASE DATE

1952

TIME

1h 25m

GENRE

Drama

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Ayako Akabori‌

Ayako Akabori

Widow

Yoshimasa Chiba‌

Yoshimasa Chiba

Yoshi-bô

Keiko Fukushima‌

Keiko Fukushima

Soldier's wife

Kiyoshi Kawanishi‌

Kiyoshi Kawanishi

Seiji

Yukiko Himori‌

Yukiko Himori

Setsuko, Bus guide

Yotaka Iwamoto‌

Yotaka Iwamoto

Hôta

Yoshio Kinuta‌

Yoshio Kinuta

Genji

Shinichiro Kubota‌

Shinichiro Kubota

Ichiun

Hiroyuki Mihara‌

Hiroyuki Mihara

Hiroyuki

Yoshiharu Miyauchi‌

Yoshiharu Miyauchi

Ryôhei, carver

Sadao Nakamura‌

Sadao Nakamura

Tan-kô

Yuzaburo Shimada‌

Yuzaburo Shimada

Demobilized soldier

Mayumi Utagawa‌

Mayumi Utagawa

Second-generation immigrant

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