Dedication of the Great Buddha

Dedication of the Great Buddha (大仏開眼, Daibutsu kaigen) is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.^[1] It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Dedication of the Great Buddha
Directed by	Teinosuke Kinugasa
Written by	Teinosuke Kinugasa Ryuichiro Yagi
Starring	Shinobu Araki Machiko Kyō Ryōsuke Kagawa
Cinematography	Kôhei Sugiyama
Music by	Ikuma Dan
Release date	20 March 1952 (1952-03-20)
Running time	129 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

• Shinobu Araki as Ryōben
• Kōtarō Bandō
• Kazuo Hasegawa as Kunihito Tateto
• Sumiko Hidaka as Morime Ōmiya
• Tatsuya Ishiguro
• Ryōsuke Kagawa
• Toshiaki Konoe
• Kanji Koshiba
• Yataro Kurokawa as Nakamaro Fujiwara
• Machiko Kyō as Mayame
• Mitsuko Mito as Sakuyako Tachibana
• Shozo Nanbu
• Shintarō Nanjō
• Joji Oka as Naramaro Tachibana
• Denjirō Ōkōchi as Gyōki
• Sakae Ozawa as Kimimaro Kuninaka
• Mitsusaburō Ramon as Sakamaro
• Taiji Tonoyama
• Kenjiro Uemura as Shōnan Shinjō

See also

• Depictions of Gautama Buddha in film