Children of the Great Buddha

Children of the Great Buddha
1952Drama85 mins
★★★★★

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 uncharacteri... read more

  • Hiroshi Shimizu

    Director

  • Hiroshi Shimizu

    Writer

  • Saburo Furuyama

    Director of Photography

  • 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

    • Runtime

    85 minutes

    Released

    1952-10-23

    Languages

    日本語

    Countries

    Japan

    Studios

    Hachi no Su Eiga-bu

    Sound

  • Senji Itô

    Music

    • Updated

    34 days ago

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