Shinran, Part II (1960)

ALL 09/27/1960 (ja) Drama, History 127 Min
  • Release
    09/27/1960
  • Production
    Toei Company
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    続親鸞
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

  1. Tomotaka Tasaka

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Shinran, Part II (1960) 127 Min

ALL 09/27/1960 (ja)
Drama, History
  • Release 09/27/1960
  • Production
    Toei Company
  • Original title 続親鸞
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Tomotaka Tasaka

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer