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The Burmese Harp is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Kon Ichikawa released in USA on 28 april 1967 with Rentarō Mikuni

The Burmese Harp (1956)

Biruma no tategoto

The Burmese Harp
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Released in USA 28 april 1967
Length 1h56
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    War,    Musical
Rating79% 3.9962253.9962253.9962253.9962253.996225

The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴, Biruma no tategoto, a.k.a. Harp of Burma) is a 1956 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was based on a children's novel of the same name written by Michio Takeyama. It was Ichikawa's first film to be shown outside Japan, and is "one of the first films to portray the decimating [sic] effects of World War II from the point of view of the Japanese army." The film was nominated for the 1957 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, during the first year that such a category existed.

In 1985, Ichikawa remade the film in color with different actors.

Synopsis

Private Mizushima (Shôji Yasui), a Japanese soldier, becomes the harp (or saung) player of Captain Inouye's (Rentarō Mikuni) group, composed of soldiers who fight and sing to raise morale in the World War II Burma Campaign. When they are offered shelter in a village, they eventually realize they are being watched by British soldiers. They retrieve their ammunition, then see the advancing force. Captain Inouye tells the men to sing, laugh and clap, to give the British the impression that they are unaware of their presence. Instead of firing at them, though, the British soldiers begin singing the same melody. They learn that the war has ended with the Japanese surrender, and so they surrender to the British.

Actors

Rentarō Mikuni

(Captain Inouye)Jun Hamamura

(Ito)Shōji Yasui

(Mizushima)Taketoshi Naito

(Pvt. Kobayashi)Kō Nishimura

(Baba)
And :
Yūnosuke Itō
Tanie Kitabayashi
Tomio Aoki
Kunitarō Sawamura
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