The Great Buddha Arrival

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

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

Shiro Sano

Peggy Neal

as Dr. Mary Lisa Gleason

Yukijiro Hotaru

as Detective Osaki

Norman England

as American caster

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