The Happy Science Filmography Ranked
6. The Laws of the Sun (2000)
This film lays out the cosmology of Happy Science. It goes more in depth on creation, really digging into the minutiae of the universe’s history. It also goes through each of El Cantare’s incarnations until now. It begins by presuming the questions humans have, like what our “true” purpose is, who we “really” are, and how we got here.
Apparently, it all began 5.5 billion years ago, when the eternal buddha of the thirteenth dimension created the third dimension, where we live. El Miore (El Cantare), the first ninth dimensional being of the solar system, created life on Venus, including the first humans.
Unfortunately, Venus was just too perfect and utopian after a billion years, so evolution couldn’t move forward. A bunch of Venusians were sent into space, and massive volcanic eruptions destroyed life on Venus. The new spirit group of Earth set high goals for evolution, and began bringing in immigrants from other galaxies to populate Earth. Over time, the humans forgot their spiritual nature and started doing bad stuff, and spirits from hell latched onto them. Hell was growing at an unsustainable rate…
El Cantare solved this problem by visiting Earth as La Mu, the king of Mu. He eventually returned as Thoth in Atlantis, Rient Arl Croud in Inca, Ophelias and Hermes in Greece, and Buddha in India. Disciples of El Cantare follow him in each incarnation, showing viewers the benefits of following him.
Parts of this film can drag (especially a noteworthy fifteen minute sermon at the end), but it gets really fun with Rient Arl Croud. The Reptilians, an evil race of aliens that operate within a grey area of Galactic Federation law, work to deceive humans into worshipping them so they can invade Earth and eat us (I didn’t expect David Icke to crossover into this universe). The Reptilians mention that they want to invade Earth before the space police arrive, and that was by far the funniest moment of the film. Of course, the religion the Reptilians use to trick the Incas is pretty much a valid religion, and I don’t understand why belief in it is problematic in a worldview that says any religion is okay. Ultimately, the film has enough content and moves at a strong enough pace to be decently entertaining, and will keep a viewing audience on their toes as regards what will happen next.
5. The Rebirth of Buddha (2009)
This film is about a high school girl that learns about the truth of the spirit world and uses that truth to help fight a guy claiming to be the reincarnation of Buddha. She joins up with the real reincarnation of Buddha, a surrogate for Okawa, to expose this huckster. You may be asking how we can tell the difference between the real Buddha and the fake one – they both tell you that if you don’t believe you’ll go to hell, and they both promise you great things if you do obey them, and they both have magical powers that lots of people see. The difference is that one is working with aliens and evil spirits, while the other is El Cantare. So that’s how you know. It’s pretty simple.
There are a lot of twists and turns in this film. One moment there’s relationship drama between a girl and her boyfriend, the next moment an Australian guy is getting possessed by a demon. A guy and a kid are trying to catch goldfish, but then some aliens arrive and start blasting Japan with lasers. The bad guy hijacks a TV station to make people think a tsunami is imminent, but the protagonists steal it back so they can make a speech about love and happiness.
The final brawl is a fight between the two Buddhas on a baseball field. They have a magic fight, ending with El Cantare summoning a glowing elephant and giant sword to banish the demon to hell. Afterwards, he converts the false Buddha to Happy Science, there are some bad CGI angels, Buddha tells us we’ll know he’s Buddha because Buddha will be the one telling us the stories from Happy Science, and Buddha and his disciples have a good jolly laugh like the end of a ‘Scooby Doo’ episode. This movie manages to remain entertaining, but could not have a worse magical protagonist.
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