Description
Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class, was placed in a monastary on Mount Hiei when still a child. He did not come down for twenty years, when his wanderings begin as he spreads his ideas for achieving enlightenment through the Pure Land sutra. Because his teachings contradict the powerful Tendai sect, he comes to grief with the government, his followers persecuted, himself exiled to far coastal Echigo where he married & began raising a family but soonafter was wandering & teaching again. He lived to be ninety.
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Release Date1960
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Runtime2 hr 7 min
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Languageja
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Rating0 (0)
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Genres
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DirectorTomotaka Tasaka
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Cast萬屋錦之介中村嘉葎雄千秋実月形龍之介大河内傳次郎千田是也加賀邦男木暮実千代織田政雄岡田英次丘さとみ徳大寺伸薄田研二平幹二朗吉田義夫香川良介小沢栄太郎澤村宗之助原健策片岡栄二郎伏見扇太郎里見浩太朗尾上鯉之助北竜二桜町弘子
