The Giant Buddha is a 33 meter high statue of the religious leader that once resided in Ueno Village of the Aichi Prefecture (currently Tokai City). It spontaneously came to life and began touring the country, mainly seeing tourist sights in the Chukyo region (presently Nagoya), before flying into the clouds and going to Tokyo.

An article in a 1934 issue of Kinema Junpo purportedly describes scenes in which the statue "strides over a train," "rests his head on a three-story building," "makes geisha girls dance on his palm," and visits Heaven and Hell.

*Daibutsu Kaikoku (1934)

*The Giant Buddha is widely considered to be the first Japanese Kaiju.
*The film was intended to be the start of a franchise, but no sequels were ever produced. The film itself was likely destroyed, either due to bombing by the Allied forces during World War II or poor preservation practices by the studio.

*[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Buddha_Arrival_(1934_film) Wikipedia]

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