The Great Buddha Arrival
DirectorHiroto Yokokawa
“You can not reach Sukhavati without watching this.”
An all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The Country, made with the cooperation of director Yoshiro Edamasa's grandson. From Japan, a modern kaiju story based on what may be the first kaiju film.
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Cast
Akira Takarada
Narrator
Yuki Morita
Announcer Itano
Toshi Toda
Maxwell (Toshi) James
Philip Granger
US President
Yukiko Kobayashi
Yuko Murata
Akira Kubo
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Shiro Sano
Peggy Neal
Dr. Mary Lisa Gleason
Yukijiro Hotaru
Detective Osaki
Norman England
American caster
Robert Scott Field
Mysterious person - Cameo
Shelley Sweeney
Canadian Interviewer
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