buddha &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:buddha @settima@zirk.us Wed, 06 May 2026 11:32:00 +0200 大佛廻國 [Daibutsu kaikoku / The Great Buddha Arrival] (Yoshirō Edamasa, 1934) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gnqh <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 大佛廻國 [Daibutsu kaikoku / The Great Buddha Arrival] (Yoshirō Edamasa, 1934)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 22/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Daibutsu kaikoku (1934).jpg)/div div class="caption" Buddha takes a holiday. A gigantic Buddha statue rests his hand on a multi-story building in possibly Kyoto. In front and sprawling out are multiple small wooden establishments with people in kimono and several bicycles in front of them. A tram, the only thing that suggests the 20supth/sup century, can be seen almost off-screen. (via). DPs: Haruzo Ando & Harumi Machii./div div class="txt" Something tall &nbsp; In this very early kaiju moving picture, Buddha returns and goes on a sightseeing trip through Japan. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #YoshirōEdamasa #HidemichiIshikawa #KazuyoKojima #TankaiSoganoya #HaruzoAndo #HarumiMachii #kaiju #tokusatsu #religion #Buddhism #Buddha #travelogue #Japan #1930s/div /section ]]>

大佛廻國 [Daibutsu kaikoku / The Great Buddha Arrival] (Yoshirō Edamasa, 1934)

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Daibutsu kaikoku (1934)

Buddha takes a holiday. A gigantic Buddha statue rests his hand on a multi-story building in possibly Kyoto. In front and sprawling out are multiple small wooden establishments with people in kimono and several bicycles in front of them. A tram, the only thing that suggests the 20th century, can be seen almost off-screen. (via). DPs: Haruzo Ando & Harumi Machii.

Something tall*

 

In this very early kaiju moving picture, Buddha returns and goes on a sightseeing trip through Japan.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #YoshirōEdamasa #HidemichiIshikawa #KazuyoKojima #TankaiSoganoya #HaruzoAndo #HarumiMachii #kaiju #tokusatsu #religion #Buddhism #Buddha #travelogue #Japan #1930s

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