Buddha | 釈迦
Buddha釈迦
Overview
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
Cast
Raizō Ichikawa
Shintarō Katsu
Kōjirō Hongō
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Keizô Kawasaki
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Hajime Mitamura
Matasaburô Niwa
Ryûzô Shimada
Jōji Tsurumi
Shirō Ōtsuji
Yoshirô Kitahara
Jun Negami
Koreya Senda
Eijirō Tōno
Bontarō Miake
Osamu Takizawa
Toshio Chiba
Ryuichi Ishii
Yoichi Funaki
Tatsuo Hananuno
Osamu Maruyama
San'emon Arashi
Mitsugu Terashima
Osamu Abe
Yūsaku Terashima
Shinobu Araki
Gen Shimizu
Shōzō Nanbu
Kōichi Katsuragi
Ryōnosuke Azuma
Kōichi Mizuhara
Okuyama Asao
Kinya Ichikawa
Shintarō Nanjō
Seishirō Hara
Saburo Date
Sumao Ishihara
Jun Fujikawa
Ikkei Tamaki
Yukio Horikita
Fumihiko Yokoyama
Masayoshi Kikuno
Hajime Koshikawa
Bonta Maru
Tokio Oki
Yūji Hamada
Jukai Ichikawa
Machiko Kyō
Tamao Nakamura
Charito Solis
Junko Kano
Fujiko Yamamoto
Isuzu Yamada
Yumeji Tsukioka
Tanie Kitabayashi
Chikako Hosokawa
Haruko Sugimura
Mieko Kendo
Reiko Fujiwara
Tokiko Mita
Hiromi Ichida
Michiko Ai
Reiko Kongō
Kimiko Tachibana
Sachiko Hori
Teruko Omi
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Crew
Kenji Misumi
Fuji Yahiro
Teruo Kajitani
Akira Inoue
Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Hiroshi Imai
Kanji Suganuma
Akira Ifukube
Kenichi Okamoto
Akinari Suzuki
