The Great Buddha Arrival
The Great Buddha Arrival

Movie·2018·1h 0m

The Great Buddha Arrival

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Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

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The Story

Original title: 大仏廻国

An all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The Country, made with the cooperation of director Yoshiro Edamasa's grandson. From Japan, a modern kaiju story based on what may be the first kaiju film.

Written By

Robert Hood, Kazuma Yoneyama, Yuki Yonezawa

Producer

Hiroto Yokokawa, George Guzman

Cinematography

Hiroto Yokokawa

Music

Hiromi Shinoda

Editor

Hiroto Yokokawa

Themes

buddhakaiju

Production House

3YFILM

Audience Score

60%

4 votes

Skip14%
Timepass32%
Go for it36%
Perfection18%

Where to watch

Region: US

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// cast

Cast

Akira Takarada

Akira Takarada

Narrator

Yuki Morita

Announcer Itano

Toshi Toda

Toshi Toda

Maxwell (Toshi) James

Philip Granger

Philip Granger

US President

Yukiko Kobayashi

Yukiko Kobayashi

Yuko Murata

Akira Kubo

Akira Kubo

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Shiro Sano

Shiro Sano

Peggy Neal

Peggy Neal

Dr. Mary Lisa Gleason

Yukijiro Hotaru

Yukijiro Hotaru

Detective Osaki

Norman England

Norman England

American caster

Robert Scott Field

Mysterious person - Cameo

Shelley Sweeney

Shelley Sweeney

Canadian Interviewer

Bin Furuya

Bin Furuya

Yoshirō Uchida

Yoshirō Uchida

Mayor Sakurai

Ippei Osako

Ippei Osako

Tanaka Producer

Inge Murata

Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel

Masanori Kikuzawa

Emasasa

Kazuma Yoneyama

Kazuma Yoneyama

// crew

Crew

Hiroto Yokokawa

Hiroto Yokokawa

Director of Photography, Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Editor

Kieron Estrada

Director of Photography, Editor

Hiromi Shinoda

Original Music Composer

Robert Hood

Writer

Kazuma Yoneyama

Kazuma Yoneyama

Writer

Yuki Yonezawa

Writer

George Guzman

Producer

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