"You can not reach Sukhavati without watching this." 15 December 2018 Fantasy, Sci-Fi 60 mins
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.
Watch the official The Great Buddha Arrival 2018 trailer in HD below.
Akira Takarada as Narrator
Yuki Morita as Announcer Itano
Toshi Toda as Maxwell (Toshi) James
Philip Granger as US President
Yukiko Kobayashi as Yuko Murata
Akira Kubo as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Peggy Neal as Dr. Mary Lisa Gleason
Yukijiro Hotaru as Detective Osaki
Norman England as American caster
Robert Scott Field as Mysterious person - Cameo
Shelley Sweeney as Canadian Interviewer
Yoshirō Uchida as Mayor Sakurai
Ippei Osako as Tanaka Producer
Inge Murata as Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel
Hiroto Yokokawa Director of Photography
Kieron Estrada Director of Photography
Hiromi Shinoda Original Music Composer
Robert Hood Writer
Hiroto Yokokawa Director
Hiroto Yokokawa Writer
Kazuma Yoneyama Writer
Yuki Yonezawa Writer
Tim Bean Associate Producer
Alan Doshna Associate Producer
Kieron Estrada Associate Producer
Michael Field Associate Producer
Avery Guerra Consulting Producer
Robert Hood Associate Producer
George Guzman Producer
Jordan Lopez Associate Producer
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The Great Buddha Arrival Trailer
Japan 15 December 2018
United States 13 July 2019
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