Shinran, Part II
Shinran, Part II
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1960

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127m

Shinran, Part II

Summary

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.

Director

Tomotaka Tasaka

Novel

Eiji Yoshikawa

Screenplay

Masashige Narusawa

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Status:

Released

Original Language:

Japanese

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Keywords

biography