Children of the Great Buddha (1952)
1h 25m
Running Time
October 23, 1952Release Date

Children of the Great Buddha (1952)
1h 25m
Running Time
October 23, 1952Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Ayako Akabori
Widow

Yoshimasa Chiba
Yoshi-bô

Keiko Fukushima
Soldier's wife

Kiyoshi Kawanishi
Seiji

Yukiko Himori
Setsuko, Bus guide

Yotaka Iwamoto
Hôta

Yoshio Kinuta
Genji

Shinichiro Kubota
Ichiun

Hiroyuki Mihara
Hiroyuki

Yoshiharu Miyauchi
Ryôhei, carver

Sadao Nakamura
Tan-kô

Yuzaburo Shimada
Demobilized soldier

Mayumi Utagawa
Second-generation immigrant

Shinichi Sekizawa
Production Design

Hiroshi Shimizu
Director / Writer

Senji Itô
Music

Saburo Furuyama
Director of Photography
Details.
Release DateOctober 23, 1952
Original Name大仏さまと子供たち
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 25m
Genres
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