Children of the Great Buddha (1952)
The final film in the Beehive trilogy. Set in post-war Nara, it follows a group of orphans living in a temple who support themselves by acting as guides for tourists visiting the Great Buddha.
Children of the Great BuddhaDrama
Cast
- Ayako Akabori — Widow
- Yoshimasa Chiba — Yoshi-bô
- Keiko Fukushima — Soldier's wife
- Kiyoshi Kawanishi — Seiji
- Yukiko Himori — Setsuko, Bus guide
- Yotaka Iwamoto — Hôta
- Yoshio Kinuta — Genji
- Shinichiro Kubota — Ichiun
- Hiroyuki Mihara — Hiroyuki
- Yoshiharu Miyauchi — Ryôhei, carver
- Sadao Nakamura — Tan-kô
- Yuzaburo Shimada — Demobilized soldier
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