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3Y Films held an unsuccessful Kickstarter for ''The Great Buddha Arrival'' from March to April 2018, raising $755 out of a $2,696 goal.<ref name="KS">[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1148744746/the-great-buddha-arrival-starts-crowdfunding Kickstarter - The Great Buddha Arrival Starts Crowdfunding]</ref> A second crowdfunding campaign on Makuake fared much better, far exceeding its ¥1,000,000 target with ¥1,481,000 in donations. | 3Y Films held an unsuccessful Kickstarter for ''The Great Buddha Arrival'' from March to April 2018, raising $755 out of a $2,696 goal.<ref name="KS">[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1148744746/the-great-buddha-arrival-starts-crowdfunding Kickstarter - The Great Buddha Arrival Starts Crowdfunding]</ref> A second crowdfunding campaign on Makuake fared much better, far exceeding its ¥1,000,000 target with ¥1,481,000 in donations. | ||
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*As in ''[[Godzilla: Final Wars]]'', Yoshihiko Otsuki and Junichiro Nirasawa play characters who debate whether a mysterious presence is malevolent. | *As in ''[[Godzilla: Final Wars]]'', Yoshihiko Otsuki and Junichiro Nirasawa play characters who debate whether a mysterious presence is malevolent. | ||
*Inge Murata previously played the Chancellor of Germany in ''[[Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit]]''. | *Inge Murata previously played the Chancellor of Germany in ''[[Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit]]''. | ||
*[[Bin Furuya]]'s character, Kazuyoshi Edamasa, wears a small [[wikia:w:c:ultra:Ultraman (character)|Ultraman]] pin. Furuya is best-known as the original Ultraman suit actor. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[https://www.daibutsukaikoku.com/english Official site] | *[https://www.daibutsukaikoku.com/english Official site] | ||
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You can not reach Sukhavati without watching this. (これを観ずして極楽浄土には行けません。)
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The Great Buddha Arrival (大仏廻国 Daibutsu Kaikoku) is a 2018 tokusatsu kaiju film produced by 3Y Film. A sequel to the lost 1934 film of the same name, made with the cooperation of director Yoshiro Edamasa's grandson, it was released in Japan on December 15, 2018. Additional footage with new actors was shot to extend the film's run time for international distribution, with still more footage shot for a Japanese theatrical release in 2020, termed the Final Edition.[2][3]
Plot
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Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Hiroto Yokokawa
- Written by Hiroto Yokokawa, Yuki Yonezawa, Kazuma Yoneyama, Kensaku Sakai
- Produced by Hiroto Yokokawa, Avery Guerra
- Music by Hiromi Shinoda
- Production design by Takuma Asai, Karin Yamada, Ryo Kimoto, Hiroki Ishikawa
- Visual effects by Color Co., Ltd.
Cast
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Masanori Kikuzawa as Yoshiro Edamasa
- Kazuma Yoneyama as Murata
- Iwata Momoka as Momorun
- Yuma as Kita
- Takashi Yasuda as Kayama reporter
- Shelley Sweeney as Canadian interviewer
- Peggy Neal as Dr. Mary-Lisa Gleason
- Norman England as American newscaster
- Inge Murata as Chancellor of Germany
- Philip Granger as President of the United States
- Robert Scott Field as Mysterious person
- Iku Hasegawa as Yoshiro Edamasa's lover
- Ai Aoki as Female suicide victim
- Ippei Osako as Producer Tanaka
- Yuki Morita as Announcer Itano
- Toshi Toda as James "Toshi" Maxwell
- Yoshihiko Otsuki as Physicist
- Junichiro Nirasawa as Paranormal researcher
- Yukijiro Hotaru as Detective Osaki
- Akira Takarada as Himself
- Yoshiro Uchida as Mayor Sakurai (international version and Final Edition)
- Yukiko Kobayashi as Yuko Murata (international version and Final Edition)
- Akira Kubo as Prime Minister Maki (international version and Final Edition)
- Shiro Sano as Newscaster Miyakura (Final Edition)
- Bin Furuya as Kazuyoshi Edamasa (Final Edition)
Appearances
Monsters
- Great Buddha
- Godzilla (mentioned)
- Gamera (mentioned)
- Ultraman (pin; mentioned)
Development
3Y Films held an unsuccessful Kickstarter for The Great Buddha Arrival from March to April 2018, raising $755 out of a $2,696 goal.[4] A second crowdfunding campaign on Makuake fared much better, far exceeding its ¥1,000,000 target with ¥1,481,000 in donations.
Video releases
SRS Cinema VHS (2022)[5]
- Tapes: 1
- Audio: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Notes: Limited to 25 copies.
SRS Cinema Blu-ray (2022)[6]
- Region: N/A
- Discs: 1
- Audio: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Special features: Behind-the-scenes footage (1:00); deleted scene (6:00); music video (1:07); photo gallery (4:00); The Great Buddha Arrival trailer (1:00) and teaser trailer (1:00); trailers for Zillafoot (0:49), War of the God Monsters (1:05), Howl from Beyond the Fog (1:08), God Raiga vs. King Ohga: War of the Monsters (1:03), Nezura 1964 (0:37), and Monster Seafood Wars (1:36)
- Notes: SRS Cinema also plans to eventually release the film on DVD.[7]
Videos
Trailers
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Miscellaneous
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See also
Trivia
- While no footage of the original The Great Buddha Arrival is known to have survived, the sequel presents recreated clips from the film using suitmation. The Great Buddha who appears in the present day is a CGI creation.
- Yoshiro Uchida played turtle-obsessed Toshio Sakurai in Gamera. His character in The Great Buddha Arrival, Mayor Sakurai, tells a story highly reminiscent of Gamera's rescuing of Toshio and owns a pet turtle.
- The name of Peggy Neal's character, Dr. Mary-Lisa Gleason, references her characters' names in Terror Beneath the Sea (Jenny Gleason) and The X from Outer Space (Lisa Schneider).
- The name of Akira Kubo's character, Prime Minister Maki, references his character's name in Son of Godzilla (Goro Maki).
- Yukijiro Hotaru's character, Detective Osaki, references his character in the Heisei Gamera trilogy, Inspector Tsutomu Osako.
- As in Godzilla: Final Wars, Yoshihiko Otsuki and Junichiro Nirasawa play characters who debate whether a mysterious presence is malevolent.
- Inge Murata previously played the Chancellor of Germany in Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit.
- Bin Furuya's character, Kazuyoshi Edamasa, wears a small Ultraman pin. Furuya is best-known as the original Ultraman suit actor.
External links
References
This is a list of references for The Great Buddha Arrival. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]
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