
Children of the Great Buddha
The final film in the Beehive trilogy, Children of the Great Buddha chronicles war orphans working as tour guides among the looming statues and temples of Japan’s ancient capital of Nara. Shimizu’s uncharacteristic hands-on approach to the film’s cinematography frames the sacred objects as “very real agents” in the children’s threadbare lives, resulting in a deeply moving and spiritual work that fittingly concludes his orphan saga.
Children of the Great Buddha
October 23, 1952
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Cast (13)

Ayako Akabori
Widow

Yoshimasa Chiba
Yoshi-bô

Keiko Fukushima
Soldier's wife

Kiyoshi Kawanishi
Seiji

Yukiko Himori
Setsuko, Bus guide

Yotaka Iwamoto
Hôta

Yoshio Kinuta
Genji

Shinichiro Kubota
Ichiun

Hiroyuki Mihara
Hiroyuki

Yoshiharu Miyauchi
Ryôhei, carver

Sadao Nakamura
Tan-kô

Yuzaburo Shimada
Demobilized soldier

Mayumi Utagawa
Second-generation immigrant
Crew (5)
Directing

Hiroshi Shimizu
Director
Writing

Hiroshi Shimizu
Writer
Production
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Senji Itô
Music
Art

Shinichi Sekizawa
Production Design
Camera

Saburo Furuyama
Director of Photography