Shinran, Part II (1960)
Synopsis
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: 1960-09-27
Runtime: 127 minutes
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka
Top Cast
- Kinnosuke Nakamura as
- Katsuo Nakamura as
- Minoru Chiaki as
- Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as
- Denjirō Ōkōchi as
- Koreya Senda as
- Kunio Kaga as
- Michiyo Kogure as
- Masao Oda as
- Eiji Okada as
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