The Burmese Harp (1956)
January 21, 1956Release Date
The Burmese Harp (1956)
January 21, 1956Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
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
Hiroshi Hijikata
Okada
Sanpei Mine
Abe
Takashi Koshiba
Shimizu
Tokuhei Miyahara
Nagai
Kon Ichikawa
Director
Michio Takeyama
Novel
Masayuki Takaki
Producer
Akira Ifukube
Original Music Composer
Masanori Tsujii
Editor
Minoru Yokoyama
Director of Photography
Natto Wada
Screenplay
Akira Nakai
Production Design
Takashi Matsuyama
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 21, 1956
Original Nameビルマの竪琴
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 57m
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴, Biruma no Tategoto, a.k.a. Harp of Burma) is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. Based on a children's novel of the same name written by Michio Takeyama, it tells the story of Japanese soldiers who fought in the Burma Campaign during World War II. A member of the group goes missing after the war, and the soldiers hope to uncover whether their friend survived, and if he is the same person as a Buddhist monk they see playing a harp. The film was among the first to show the losses of the war from a Japanese soldier's perspective.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 1956. In 1985, Ichikawa remade The Burmese Harp in color with a new cast, and the remake was a major box office success, becoming the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1985 and the second largest Japanese box office hit up to that time.