Path To Purity
Shinran: Path to Purity (親鸞 白い道, Shinran: Shiroi michi) is a 1987 Japanese drama film directed by Rentarō Mikuni, based on Mikuni's novel of the same name.
The film follows the life and struggles of the Jodo Shinshu founder, Shinran, during the tumultuous Heian era. The film won the Jury Prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
| Shinran: Path to Purity | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Rentarō Mikuni |
| Starring | Junkyu Moriyama |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
Release date |
|
Running time | 140 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Cast
- Junkyu Moriyama as Zenshin (Shinran)
- Michiyo Ookusu as Keishin, Shinran's wife
- Ako as Shiina
- Kazuo Andoh as Kazuto
- Sen Hara as Ayae
- Guts Ishimatsu as Atota
- Hanshiro Iwai as Sadaie Fujiwara
- Shigeru Izumiya as Hyu
- Hosei Komatsu as Utsunomiya
- Akaji Maro as Nanzame
- Mako Midori as Chiyo
- Rentarō Mikuni as Horai
- Junko Miyashita as Believer
- Sanae Nakahara as Woman at waiting
- Katsuo Nakamura as Biwa player
- Miki Odagiri as Woman at the field
- Eitaro Ozawa as Gyosen
- Frankie Sakai as Yorishige Inada
- Koji Shimizu
- Kantaro Suga as Zennen
- Tetsuro Tamba as Aketora
- Tomisaburo Wakayama as Homen
References
External links
This article uses material from the Wikipedia English article Shinran: Path to Purity, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki English (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.