The Great Buddha Arrival

Dec 15, 2018

1h 0m

★ 6.0

You can not reach Sukhavati without watching this.

Overview

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.

Genres

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Production Companies

3YFILM

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Cast

Narrator

Akira Takarada

Announcer Itano

Yuki Morita

Maxwell (Toshi) James

Toshi Toda

US President

Philip Granger

Yuko Murata

Yukiko Kobayashi

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Akira Kubo

Shiro Sano

Dr. Mary Lisa Gleason

Peggy Neal

Detective Osaki

Yukijiro Hotaru

American caster

Norman England

Mysterious person - Cameo

Robert Scott Field

Canadian Interviewer

Shelley Sweeney

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