Bronze Magician
- Original title
- Yôsôaka
- AKA
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- Priest and Empress
- The Sorcerer
- Year
- 1963
- Running time
- 98 min.
- Country
- Japan
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Teinosuke Kinugasa. Story: Yahiro Fuji
- Cast
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- Raizô Ichikawa
- Yukiko Fuji
- Hikosaburo Kataoka
- Miyako Endô
- Osamu Maruyama
- Tomisaburô Wakayama
- Mieko Kondo
- Eitarô Ozawa
- Katsuhiko Kobayashi
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- Music
- Cinematography
Hiroshi Imai (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | 8th Century
- Synopsis
- A Buddhist priest becomes also a magician, dedicating himself to the protection of life wherever it's needed, whereupon he finds himself in direct service of the Queen. Political intrigue tightens around him as it is increasingly assumed that he harbors ulterior motives. Set in Japan's Nara Era (710 - 794 A.D.), the story is loosely based on Mikado (Empress) Koken-Shotoku and Dokyo, a Yamabushi (mountain warrior monk who practices a rugged, intense form of Vajrayana Buddhism founded by his master, Do-en).
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