The official website for the anime film of Kentetsu Takamori’s Buddhist book Tannishō o Hiraku (Opening the Tannishō) began streaming a trailer on Friday.
The film stars Kōji Ishizaka as Shinran (in his first anime film role as the lead), and Toshiki Masuda as Yuien.
Kazuhisa Ouno (episode director for Encouragement of Climb, Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul) is directing the film at Paradise Cafe.
From 1992 to 1999, AIC produced Sekai no Hikari: Shinran Seijin, a six-part original video anime series about the life of the monk Shinran.