Shinran, Part II
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.
Year: 1960
Studio: Toei Company
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka
Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Katsuo Nakamura, Minoru Chiaki, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Koreya Senda
Crew: Makoto Tsuboi (Cinematography), Tomotaka Tasaka (Director), Masashige Narusawa (Screenplay), Eiji Yoshikawa (Novel), Akira Ifukube (Original Music Composer)
Runtime: 127 minutes
Release: Sep 27, 1960
IMDb: 9.00/10 by 1 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : biography
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