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An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close of World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment. Magnificently shot in hushed black and white, Kon Ichikawa’s The Burmese Harp is an eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death and remains one of Japanese cinema’s most overwhelming antiwar statements, both tender and brutal in its grappling with Japan’s wartime legacy.
Original Release
01/21/1956
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Rentaro Mikuni | Captain Inouye |
Shôji Yasui | Mizushima |
Jun Hamamura | Ito |
Taketoshi Naitô | Kobayashi |
Shunji Kasuga | Maki |
Ko Nishimura | Baba |
Keishichi Nakahara | Takagi |
Toshiaki Ito | Hashimoto |
Hiroshi Hijikata | Okada |
Tomio Aoki | Oyama |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rentaro Mikuni | Captain Inouye |
Shôji Yasui | Mizushima |
Jun Hamamura | Ito |
Taketoshi Naitô | Kobayashi |
Shunji Kasuga | Maki |
Ko Nishimura | Baba |
Keishichi Nakahara | Takagi |
Toshiaki Ito | Hashimoto |
Hiroshi Hijikata | Okada |
Tomio Aoki | Oyama |
Norikatsu Hanamura | Nakamura |
Sanpei Mine | Abe |
Takashi Koshiba | Shimizu |
Tomoko Tonai | |
Tokuhei Miyahara | Nagai |
Yoshiaki Kato | Matsuda |
Masahiko Naruse | Soldier |
Bin Moritsuka | Soldier |
Sôjirô Amano | Soldier |
Yôji Nagahama | Boy |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Masayuki Takagi | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1957 | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated |