Shinran, Part II

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.

Main Cast

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Age : N/A | Popularity : 54%

Katsuo Nakamura

Age : N/A | Popularity : 16%

Minoru Chiaki

Age : N/A | Popularity : 100%

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Age : N/A | Popularity : 12%

Denjirō Ōkōchi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 20%

Koreya Senda

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Kunio Kaga

Age : N/A | Popularity : 28%

Michiyo Kogure

Age : N/A | Popularity : 14%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Tomotaka Tasaka
Writing	Screenplay	Masashige Narusawa
	Novel	Eiji Yoshikawa
Crew	Cinematography	Makoto Tsuboi
Sound	Music	Akira Ifukube
Department	Role	Name

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