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

Narrator

Yuki Morita

Announcer Itano

Toshi Toda

Maxwell (Toshi) James

Philip Granger

US President

Yukiko Kobayashi

Yuko Murata

Akira Kubo

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Shiro Sano

Unknown

Peggy Neal

Dr. Mary Lisa Gleason

Yukijiro Hotaru

Detective Osaki

Norman England

American caster

Robert Scott Field

Mysterious person - Cameo

Shelley Sweeney

Canadian Interviewer

Bin Furuya

Unknown

Yoshirō Uchida

Mayor Sakurai

Ippei Osako

Tanaka Producer

Inge Murata

Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel

Masanori Kikuzawa

Emasasa

Kazuma Yoneyama

Unknown

Takashi Yasuda

Maha Caster

Ryotaro Fujiyama

Unknown, Witness in crowd

Ai Aoki

Female suicide

Momoya Iwata

Momorun

Crew

Hiroto Yokokawa

Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Executive Producer

Robert Hood

Writer, Associate Producer, Thanks

Kazuma Yoneyama

Writer

Yuki Yonezawa

Writer

Kieron Estrada

Editor, Director of Photography, Associate Producer, Thanks

George Guzman

Producer, Thanks

Tim Bean

Associate Producer, Thanks

Alan Doshna

Associate Producer, Thanks

Michael Field

Associate Producer, Thanks

Jordan Lopez

Associate Producer, Thanks

Avery Guerra

Casting, Consulting Producer, Publicist

Charlyn Lynton

Makeup & Hair

Hiromi Shinoda

Original Music Composer

Norman England

Other

Keith Aiken

Thanks

Tracy Gaboury Allen

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Steven Barton

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Karen Bernadello

Thanks

Damian Bravo

Thanks

Mac Brewer

Thanks

Christine Burnham

Thanks

Jessica Butorac

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Lisa Pinder Butorac

Thanks

Kyle Byrd

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Joshua Clarke

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Alex Conway

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Duane Drew

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Raf Enshohma

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Noelle Foster

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Scott Foy

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Matt Frank

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Robert Galvin

Thanks

Roy Gaskalla

Thanks

Michael Gingold

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Ash Hamilton

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Ed Holland

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Jeff Horne

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Bob Johnson

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Josh Jorenby

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Maddi MacGillvray

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Andrew Mack

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Chris Mirjahangir

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Yuki Morita

Thanks

Peggy Neal

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Christopher Oglio

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Martin Otto

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Matt Parmley

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Mike Phalin

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Chris Picard

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Christopher Lee Powers

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Brian Schad

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Daniel Schoenau

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Todd Sheets

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Jorge Solis

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Daniel Solomon

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Ingo Strecker

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Shelley Sweeney

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Kym Masera Tabor

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Paco Taylor

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Christina Thornton

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Jacob Trussell

Thanks

Brian Walker

Thanks

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