The Birth of Japan

Infobox Film
name = Nippon tanjo


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director = Hiroshi Inagaki
producer = Sanezumi Fujimoto
Tomoyuki Tanaka
writer = Ryuzo Kikushima
Toshio Yasumi
starring = Toshirô Mifune
Yôko Tsukasa
Akihiko Hirata
music = Akira Ifukube
cinematography = Kazuo Yamada
editing = Kazuji Taira
distributor =
released = 1959
runtime = 182 min.
country = Japan
language = Japanese
budget =
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imdb_id = 0053117

:"The Three Treasures" can also refer to a collection of short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, "The Three Treasures (1951)"."

nihongo|"The Birth of Japan"|日本誕生|Nippon Tanjō, also called "The Three Treasures", is a 1959 Japanese tokusatsu fantasy epic film. Telling the story of the creation of Japan according to Japanese mythology, specifically the Shinto religion, it is considered Japan's answer to "The Ten Commandments". [ [http://www.historyvortex.org/OtherSideToho.html The Other Side of Toho ] ] Produced by legendary studio Toho, the film was directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and the musical score by Akira Ifukube. Heading the huge all-star cast is Toshiro Mifune as the god Susanoo and Koji Tsuruta as younger brother of Kumaso Takeru. One of the film's highlights is Mifune's Susanoo fighting the ominous eight-headed dragon, the Orochi.

The film was remade in 1994 as "Yamato Takeru", which was released in the English-speaking countries as "Orochi the Eight-Headed Dragon".The creation of Japan is very different than the creation Christans believe in. Myths say that a god was formed and thrust his mighty spear into earth's muddy sea. He pulled it back up as some mud fell back into the sea. The mud hardened and formed Japan's islands.

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