Shinran, Part II

Shinran, Part II (1960)

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.

Director: Tomotaka Tasaka
Writer: Masashige Narusawa

Release Date: 1960-09-27
Status: Released
Run time: 127 min / 2:7
Production Company : Toei Company
Production Country: Japan

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	Minoru Chiaki as
	Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as
	Denjirō Ōkōchi as
	Koreya Senda as
	Kunio Kaga as
	Michiyo Kogure as
	Masao Oda as
	Eiji Okada as
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	Shin Tokudaiji as
	Kenji Susukida as
	Mikijiro Hira as
	Yoshio Yoshida as
	Ryōsuke Kagawa as
	Eitarō Ozawa as
	Sonosuke Sawamura as
	Kensaku Hara as
	Eijirō Kataoka as
	Sentarō Fushimi as
	Kōtarō Satomi as
	Koinosuke Onoe as
	Ryuji Kita as
	Hiroko Sakuramachi as

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Directing	Tomotaka Tasaka	Director
Writing	Masashige Narusawa	Screenplay
Writing	Eiji Yoshikawa	Novel
Crew	Makoto Tsuboi	Cinematography
Sound	Akira Ifukube	Original Music Composer

Shinran, Part II

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