We had the chance to make new Eng subtitles for this film as part of our ’24 Shimizu retro—we screened the very same 35mm print that this initiative now hopes to preserve digitally! A beautiful film in reverence to the children Shimizu spent his entire career depicting.

A crowdfunding effort to digitize Hiroshi Shimizu’s final Beehive film CHILDREN OF THE GREAT BUDDHA—a love letter to Nara and a compassionate work in reverence to the children he spent his entire career depicting—ends its campaign on the 31st: http://readyfor.jp/projects/daibutsusama-kodomotachi/announcements