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Shinran, Part II
Shinran, Part II

Shinran, Part II

1960

N/R

Categories:

  • Drama
  • History

Overview:

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.

Tomotaka Tasaka

Director

Cast:

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  • Kinnosuke Nakamura

    Kinnosuke Nakamura

  • Katsuo Nakamura

    Katsuo Nakamura

  • Minoru Chiaki

    Minoru Chiaki

  • Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

    Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

  • Denjirō Ōkōchi

    Denjirō Ōkōchi

  • Koreya Senda

    Koreya Senda