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