Shinran, Part II
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.
Release date
27/09/1960
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Kinnosuke Nakamura
Katsuo Nakamura
Minoru Chiaki
Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
Denjirō Ōkōchi
Koreya Senda
Kunio Kaga
Michiyo Kogure
Masao Oda
Eiji Okada
Satomi Oka
Shin Tokudaiji
Kenji Susukida
Mikijiro Hira
Yoshio Yoshida
Ryōsuke Kagawa
Eitarō Ozawa
Sonosuke Sawamura
Kensaku Hara
Eijirō Kataoka
Sentarō Fushimi
Kōtarō Satomi
Koinosuke Onoe
Ryuji Kita
Hiroko Sakuramachi
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