Little Buddha
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| Directed by | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Produced by | Jeremy Thomas |
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Rudy Wurlitzer Mark Peploe |
| Story by | Bernardo Bertolucci |
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| Music by | Ryuichi Sakamoto |
| Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro |
| Edited by | Pietro Scalia |
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| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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140 min. |
| Country | Italy France United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $35 million |
| Box office | $4,858,139 (USA) |
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| Soundtrack album by Ryuichi Sakamoto | ||||
| Released | 6 April 1994 (Japan) 14 June 1994 (International) |
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| Genre | Classical | |||
| Length | 63:05 | |||
| Label |
For Life Records (Japan) Milan Records (International) |
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| Producer | Ryuichi Sakamoto | |||
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Little Buddha is a 1993 Italian-French-British drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda and Keanu Reeves as Prince Siddhartha (the Buddha before his enlightenment). Produced by Bertolucci's usual collaborator, Jeremy Thomas, it marked the team's return to the East after The Last Emperor.
Tibetan Buddhist monks from a monastery in Bhutan, led by Lama Norbu, are searching for a child who is the rebirth of a great Buddhist teacher, Lama Dorje. Lama Norbu and his fellow monks believe they have found a candidate for the child in whom Lama Dorje is reborn: an American boy named Jesse Conrad, the young son of an architect and a teacher who live in Seattle. The monks come to Seattle in order to meet the boy.
Jesse is fascinated with the monks and their way of life, but his parents, Dean and Lisa, are wary, and that wariness turns into near-hostility when Norbu announces that he wants to take Jesse back with him to Bhutan to be tested. Dean changes his mind however, when one of his close friends and colleagues commits suicide because he went broke. Dean then decides to travel to Bhutan with Jesse. In Nepal, two children who are also candidates for the rebirth are encountered, Raju and Gita.
Gradually, over the course of the movie, first Jesse's mother and then Lama Norbu tell the life story of Prince Siddhartha, reading from a book that Lama Norbu has given to Jesse.
In ancient Nepal, a prince called Siddhartha turns his back on his comfortable and protected life, and sets out on a journey to solve the problem of universal suffering. As he progresses, he learns profound truths about the nature of life, consciousness, and reality. Ultimately, he battles Mara (a demon representing the ego), who repeatedly tries to divert and destroy Siddhartha. Through the final complete realization of the illusory nature of his own ego, Siddhartha attains enlightenment and becomes the Buddha.
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