Film
The Burmese Harp
1956 · 1h 57m · Drama · War
- IMDb
- 8.0
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 90%
- Metacritic
- 73
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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.
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Cast
Rentaro Mikuni
Captain Inouye
Shōji Yasui
Mizushima
Jun Hamamura
Ito
Taketoshi Naitō
Kobayashi
Shunji Kasuga
Maki
Kō Nishimura
Baba
Keishichi Nakahara
Takagi
Toshiaki Itō
Hashimoto
Hiroshi Tsuchikata
Okada
Tomio Aoki
Oyama
Nobuteru Hanamura
Nakamura
Sanpei Mine
Abe
Takashi Koshiba
Shimizu
Tokuhei Miyahara
Nagai
Masahiko Naruse
Bin Moritsuka
Crew
- Kon IchikawaDirector
- Natto WadaScreenplay
- Michio TakeyamaNovel
- Masayuki TakakiProducer
- Minoru YokoyamaDirector of Photography
- Akira IfukubeOriginal Music Composer
- Masanori TsujiiEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- January 21, 1956
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Genres
- Drama, War
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