Top Cast
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Kusuo Abe
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Shinobu Chihara
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Kensaku Hara
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Haruyo Ichikawa
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Kunio Kaga
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Ryōsuke Kagawa
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Chiezo Kataoka
Ryûnosuke Tsukue
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Gorō Kawabe
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Noboru Kiritachi
Overview
The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
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