The Great Buddha Arrival (2018)

6.0/10 60 min Fantasy Science Fiction

Overview

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.

Cast

Akira Takarada

Narrator

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

Shelley Sweeney

Canadian Interviewer

Bin Furuya

Yoshirō Uchida

Mayor Sakurai

Ippei Osako

Tanaka Producer

Kazuma Yoneyama

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