The Gambling Monk

The Gambling Monk (1963)

Go to the bicycle race between your sutras! Staring at the ticket, Namu Amida Butsu!

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 1963-10-13
  • Runtime: 1h 39min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Nikkatsu Corporation
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Shōgorō Nishimura

Summary

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...

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  • Shoichi Ozawa

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  • Aiko Ito

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  • Yōko Minamida

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  • Munenori Oyamada

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  • Masaya Takahashi

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  • Noriko Matsumoto

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  • Toshio Takahara

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  • Zenpei Saga

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  • Toyoko Takechi

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  • Shōki Fukae

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  • Kotoe Hatsui

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  • Kenji Kawai

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  • Eimei Esumi

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  • Chieko Misaki

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  • Toyo Fukuda

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  • Shuntaro Tamamura

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  • Hiroshi Hijikata

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  • Keiko Sasaki

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  • Terue Shigemori

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  • Reiko Tanigawa

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  • Yoshie Mifune

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  • Kyôji Mizuki

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  • Tsuchiyasu Kinohara

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  • Hiroshi Chiyoda

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  • Densuke Mitsuzawa

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  • Daisuke Ōmi

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  • Iwae Arai

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  • Kōji Seyama

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  • Ken Misugi

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  • Hiroshi Imamura

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  • Jōji Ehara

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  • Chiyoko Shimizu

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  • Chigusa Takayama

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  • Masako Urushizawa

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  • Hiromi Katô

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  • Etsuko Takeuchi

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  • Makiko Fukamachi

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  • Kiyoaki Takekawa

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  • 山口哲

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  • Takeo Fujisawa

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  • Misako Watanabe

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  • Takeshi Katō

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  • Yoshi Katō

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  • Akira Hisamatsu

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Directing Shōgorō Nishimura Director
Writing Nobuyuki Onishi Screenplay
Writing Shōhei Imamura Screenplay
Sound Toshirō Mayuzumi Original Music Composer
Writing Daikichi Terauchi Novel
Camera Kazue Nagatsuka Director of Photography
Lighting Saburo Mitsuo Lighting Director
Sound Takinosuke Yagi Sound Recordist
Art Yasuhiro Otsuru Art Direction
Editing Mutsuo Tanji Editor
Directing Toshiya Fujita Assistant Director
Production Kinichi Kamei Production Manager
Directing Noriko Shishikura Script Supervisor

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