The Burmese Harp
19561h 57mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- War
- Music
Overview
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
Keywords
- world war ii
- japan
- pacific war
- buddhist monk
- burma
- buddhism
- choir
- japanese soldier
- japanese surrender
- moral crisis
- partially lost film
- pow
- burying the dead
- religious experience
- power of music
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 21, 1956
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Burmese, English, Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Nikkatsu Corporation
- Cast
- Rentaro Mikuni,Shōji Yasui,Jun Hamamura,Taketoshi Naitō,Shunji Kasuga,Kō Nishimura,Keishichi Nakahara,Toshiaki Itō,Hiroshi Tsuchikata,Tomio Aokiand 17 more
- Director
- Kon Ichikawa
- Writer
- Michio Takeyama,Natto Wada
- Producer
- Masayuki Takaki
- Cinematography
- Minoru Yokoyama
- Music
- Akira Ifukube
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0049012