Nichiren (film)

Nichiren
Film poster
Directed byNoboru Nakamura
Screenplay byNoboru Nakamura
Based on
Produced byMasaichi Nagata
Starring
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CinematographyHiroshi Takemura
Edited byZen Ikeda
Music byYasushi Akutagawa
Production
company
Masakazu Nagata Production
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • 10 March 1979 (1979-03-10) (Japan)
Running time
143 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Nichiren (Japanese: 日蓮) is a 1979 Japanese historical drama film written and directed by Noboru Nakamura. Based on Matsutarō Kawaguchi's novel of the same name, the film chronicles the life of Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Kamakura period. It was the last film Nakamura directed.