La légende du grand bouddha

Original title: Daibutsu kaigen

1952
2h 9m

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A talented sculptor is hired to erect a giant Buddha statue when the capital is moved to Nara, in 745 AD. Those opposed to the statue try to use the artist's girlfriend to get him to stop it... Read allA talented sculptor is hired to erect a giant Buddha statue when the capital is moved to Nara, in 745 AD. Those opposed to the statue try to use the artist's girlfriend to get him to stop it from being completed.A talented sculptor is hired to erect a giant Buddha statue when the capital is moved to Nara, in 745 AD. Those opposed to the statue try to use the artist's girlfriend to get him to stop it from being completed.

Director
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
Writers
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Ryûichirô Yagi
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6.8/10

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Director
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
Writers
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Ryûichirô Yagi
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

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Mozjoukine

Japanese period piece.

A disappointment in the era of the great Japanese costume films. This black and white companion piece to GATE OF HELL is the work of two of it's stars and it's veteran director. The scale is impressive but the script is not.

I'll watch Machika Kyo do anything so the piece is not a total write off but it undermines Kinugasa's status, spinning of films that go back to the twenties and making him a more substantial film maker than his later contemporaries who are better known in the west.

If this has got to run another two lines let me add that this was a let down in the two hundred film Japanese retrospective that opened the unaccountably closed Chaillot Cinematheque in Paris.