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Overview
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of Buddhism. He runs afoul of the existing Buddhist sects and their government supporters and is persecuted. Can Nichiren persevere before the Mongol fleet reaches Japanese shores?
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 1, 1958
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Daiei Film
- Cast
- Shōzō Nanbu,Saburo Date,Raizō Ichikawa,Ichirō Amano,Kinya Ichikawa,Ryōsuke Kagawa,Takashi Shimura,Shoji Umewaka,Yūsaku Terashima,Ryūzō Shimadaand 27 more
- Director
- Kunio Watanabe
- Writer
- Kunio Watanabe,Fuji Yahiro
- Producer
- Masaichi Nagata
- Cinematography
- Takashi Watanabe
- Music
- Eiichi Yamada
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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