Daibutsu kaigen (1952)

Director:

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Writers:

Teinosuke Kinugasa (screenplay), Ryuichiro Yagi (screenplay)

Stars:

Shinobu Araki, Kôtarô Bandô, Kazuo Hasegawa

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Shinobu Araki	...	Ryôben
Kôtarô Bandô
Kazuo Hasegawa	...	Kunihito Tateto
Sumiko Hidaka	...	Morime Ômiya
Tatsuya Ishiguro
Ryôsuke Kagawa
Toshiaki Konoe
Kanji Koshiba
Yataro Kurokawa	...	Nakamaro Fujiwara
Machiko Kyô	...	Mayame
Mitsuko Mito	...	Sakuyako Tachibana
Shôzô Nanbu
Shintarô Nanjô
Joji Oka	...	Naramaro Tachibana
Eitarô Ozawa	...	Kimimaro Kuninaka (as Sakae Ozawa)

Storyline

Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

20 March 1952 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Dedication of the Great Buddha

Company Credits

Production Co:

Daiei Kyoto

Technical Specs

Runtime:

129 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

User Reviews

Japanese period piece.

A disappointment in the era of the great Japanese costume films. This black and white companion piece to GATE OF HELL is the work of two of it's stars and it's veteran director. The scale is impressive but the script is not.

I'll watch Machika Kyo do anything so the piece is not a total write off but it undermines Kinugasa's status, spinning of films that go back to the twenties and making him a more substantial film maker than his later contemporaries who are better known in the west.

If this has got to run another two lines let me add that this was a let down in the two hundred film Japanese retrospective that opened the unaccountably closed Chaillot Cinematheque in Paris.