THE BURMESE HARP (CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1956
• Genre: Drama, War
• Plot: An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close 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.
• Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Jun Hamamura, Taketoshi Naitô, Shunji Kasuga, Kô Nishimura, Keishichi Nakahara, Toshiaki Ito, Hiroshi Tsuchikata, Tomio Aoki, Nobuteru Hanamura, Sanpei Mine, Takashi Koshiba, Tokuhei Miyahara, Yoshiaki Kato, Masahiko Naruse, Bin Moritsuka, Sojiro Amano, Yôji Nagahama, Kunitaro Sawamura, Eiji Nakamura, Asao Sano, Shojiro Ogasawara, Tanie Kitabayashi, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yûnosuke Itô, Akiyoshi Fukae, Kon Ichikawa, Michio Takeyama, Natto Wada
• Director: Kon Ichikawa
• Runtime: 1:56
• Company: Criterion
• Media Format: Movie