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1956 Japanese War Classic

Oldie Movie DVD Digitally Mastered from Archival Prints

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Directed by Kon Ichikawa

The Burmese Harp

Nominations of Oscar Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award, also won Venice Film Festival OCIC Award and San Giorgio Prize

Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Jun Hamamura

Private Mizushima (Shôji Yasui), a Japanese soldier, becomes the harp player of Captain Inōye's (Rentaro Mikuni) group, composed of soldiers who fight and sing to raise morale in World War II Burma Campaign. When they are offered shelter in a village, they eventually realize they are being watched by British soldiers. They successfully retrieve their ammunition, then see the advancing force. Firing is declined, however. They are later told that the Japanese surrender has occurred and they surrender.

At a camp the Captain asks Mizushima to volunteer to talk down a group of soldiers who are still fighting on the mountain. He agrees to do so and is told by the British that he has 30 minutes to tell them to surrender. At the mountain he is almost shot down before they realize he is Japanese. He climbs up safely and asks to speak to whoever is in command. Meeting their commander in a cave bunker he informs him that the war has ended and they should surrender. The commander says he shall talk to the other soldiers, and they come out minutes later stating that unanimously they decided to fight to the end. Mizushima begs for them to surrender but they do nothing. He decides to ask for more time from the British, and when he creates a surrender flag, the others take it the wrong way and believe he's surrendering for them. They beat him unconscious and leave him on the floor. Soon the artillery begins again and because he's in the cave, he becomes the only survivor. He wanders around looking for the camp his group was in. He becomes sick looking at all the corpses on the ground and decides to help bury them and pray for them by stealing a monk's robe...

 

Digital Re-Mastered High Quality DVD

Black & White, 143 min.

Language Audio:
Japanese

Changeable/ Removable Subtitles:
English, Chinese

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