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Zen is a film of genre Drama directed by Banmei Takahashi with Yuki Uchida

Zen (2009)

Zen
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"Zen" is a 2009 film directed by Banmei Takahashi and starring Nakamura Kantarō II as Dogen, and Yuki Uchida as Orin.

The film is a biography of Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師) (19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253), a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. After travelling to China to study, Dogen founded the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. The Buddhist Film Foundation described it as "a poignant, in-depth, reverent and surprisingly moving portrait of Eihei Dogen."

Synopsis

Le film raconte l'histoire vraie du jeune moine japonais Dōgen qui s'initia au bouddhisme zen en Chine au XIII siècle et l'importa au Japon.

Actors

Yuki Uchida

(Orin)Nakamura Kankurō VI

(Dogen)Tatsuya Fujiwara

(Tokiyori Hôjô)Kengo Kora
Jun Murakami

(Ejô)
And :
Keiko Takahashi
Shō Aikawa
Takashi Sasano
Masahiko Nishimura
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