

Based on the semibiographical novel by Jun Miura, Oh My Buddha is the classic summer coming-of-age story that is burned to a crisp with teenage angst, youthful dreams and that warm sense of folk zeitgeist of the 70s. The narrator is a first-year student at an all-boys Buddhist school. Jaded by his dull, ordinary life, he longs for the type of creative, liberal and forward life his idol Bob Dylan leads, writing rock songs alone in his room, imitating his hero's signature croon, until one day he got invited on an island trip of sexual liberation with his fellow liberal friend.
Directed by Naoki Kai, Tomorowo Taguchi
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Released
August 15, 2009
1h 54m
Japanese

Daichi Watanabe
Jun

Kazunobu Mineta
Hige Godzilla
Shigeru Kishida
Hippie

Asami Usuda
Olive

Chiemi Hori
Okan

Lily Franky
Oton

Sakura Ando
Junko
Yuya Furukawa
Sudo

Anna Ishibashi
Kyoko Adachi

Yuichi Kimura
Ikeyama’s father

Kankuro Kudo
Kyoko’s father

Ryu Morioka
Ikeyama
Naoyuki Morita
Ibe

Ren Osugi
Doctor

Hiroshi Yamamoto
Akichan