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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Ayako Akabori, Yoshimasa Chiba, Keiko Fukushima, Kiyoshi Kawanishi, Yukiko Himori, Yotaka Iwamoto
Crew: Shinichi Sekizawa (Production Design), Hiroshi Shimizu (Director), Hiroshi Shimizu (Writer), Senji Itô (Music), Saburo Furuyama (Director of Photography)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Hachi no Su Eiga-bu
Runtime: 85 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 23, 1952
IMDb: 10
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