The Burmese Harp (1956)
With Jun Hamamura, Rentarō Mikuni, Shōji Yasui, Taketoshi Naito, Kō Nishimura
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
The Burmese Harp (Japanese: ビルマの竪琴, Hepburn: 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.
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