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The Burmese Harp

Biruma No Tategoto

1956

none

NR (Not Rated)

715515022729

8.0

7,223

drama | foreign | music dance | WWII

Japan | Japanese | Black & White | 01:56

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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.

Cast View all

	Rentaro Mikuni	Captain Inouye
	Shôji Yasui	Mizushima
	Jun Hamamura	Ito
	Taketoshi Naitô	Kobayashi
	Shunji Kasuga	Maki
	Ko Nishimura	Baba
	Keishichi Nakahara	Takagi
	Toshiaki Ito	Hashimoto
	Hiroshi Hijikata	Okada
	Tomio Aoki	Oyama
	Norikatsu Hanamura	Nakamura
	Sanpei Mine	Abe
	Takashi Koshiba	Shimizu
	Tomoko Tonai
	Tokuhei Miyahara	Nagai
	Yoshiaki Kato	Matsuda
	Masahiko Naruse	Soldier
	Bin Moritsuka	Soldier
	Sojiro Amano	Soldier
	Yôji Nagahama	Boy
	Kunitaro Sawamura	Old man
	Eiji Nakamura	Old monk
	Asao Sano	Soldier
	Shojiro Ogasawara	Soldier
	Tanie Kitabayashi	Old woman

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Director	Kon Ichikawa
Writer	Michio Takeyama, Natto Wada
Producer	Masayuki Takagi
Musician	Akira Ifukube
Photography	Minoru Yokoyama

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Edition details

Edition	Criterion
Packaging	Keep Case
Nr Discs	1
Layers	Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date	Mar 13, 2007
Regions	Region 1