Shinran, Part II

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Kinnosuke Nakamura
萬屋錦之介

Katsuo Nakamura
中村嘉葎雄

Minoru Chiaki
千秋実

Ryūnosuke Tsukigata
月形龍之介

Denjirō Ōkōchi
大河内傳次郎

Koreya Senda
千田是也

Kunio Kaga
加賀邦男

Michiyo Kogure
木暮実千代

Masao Oda
織田政雄

Eiji Okada
岡田英次

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    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.

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    1960-09-27

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    9

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    日本語
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