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Tōdai-ji has been used as a location in several Japanese films and television dramas. It was also used in the 1950s John Wayne movie The Barbarian and the Geisha when Nandaimon, the Great South Gate, doubled as a city's gates. On May 20, 1994, the international music festival The Great Music Experience was held at Tōdai-ji, supported by UNESCO.
The composition of the landscape incorporates the roof of the large southern door (Nandaimon) of the temple Tōdai-ji, as well as the three higher hills overhanging Nara: the mounts Wakakusa, Kasuga, and Mikasa. It is framed by the trees of the Himuro sanctuary in the south, and the Tōdai-ji temple in the north.
Of his work at the temple only three structures remain, the already mentioned Nandaimon, which remains the best Daibutsuyō example, the Kaizandō and the Hokkedō. [2] The gate's most characteristic features are the six-tier bracket groups projecting directly out of the columns and connected to each other by ties as long as the facade. [2]
Hokke-dō north gate (法華堂北門) [22] 1240: four-post, kirizuma-zukuri, tiled-roof: ICP: Repository 本坊経庫 honbōkyōko [23] 710-793: 3x2 bay, azekura, yosemune-zukuri, tiled-roof: NT: Shingon'in kanjōdō 東大寺真言院灌頂堂 Tōdai-ji Shingon'in kanjōdō [24] 1649 & following: Prefectural: Shingon'in front gate ...
The monument is 1.5 kilometers due south of Tōdai-ji's Nandaimon gate and 1.7 kilometers southeast of Kintetsu Nara Station. A structure similar to theZutō is the Dotō in the city of Sakai, Osaka. [4]
Kaikei's sculpture differs from an older Heian period image that is currently held by Yakushi-ji (also classified as a National Treasure). Whereas the Yakushi-ji Hachiman is a triad image, accompanied by a sculpture of Nakatsuhime and Empress Jingū (as Hachiman is the deification of Emperor Ōjin), Kaikei's sculpture is a solitary image of Hachiman as a monk.
The company's early output consisted primarily of war propaganda films. [1] The company began submitting its films to overseas festivals in the early 1950s with titles such as Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu and Teinosuke Kinugasa's Gate of Hell, which all won awards internationally. [2]
[1] The iconic set-piece was built for the film Intolerance, in particular, for the filming of the Babylon segment. The set was built to scale standing at 300 feet tall and ordained with gigantic elephant statues. When the movie was filmed, more than 3,000 extras were used to film shots of the sprawling Babylonian empire. [2]