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

Akira Ifukube
Original Music Composer

Masayuki Takaki
Producer

Masanori Tsujii
Editor

Michio Takeyama
Novel

Minoru Yokoyama
Director of Photography

Toshio Masuda
Assistant Director

Natto Wada
Screenplay

Takashi Matsuyama
Art Direction
Media.










Details.
Release DateJanuary 21, 1956
Original Nameビルマの竪琴
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 57m
Genres
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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.
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