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Bookmark this pageThe Burmese Harp (1956)
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Lyrical and rather ostentatiously humanist, Ichikawa's film tells of a Japanese soldier in Burma, so appalled by the bloody carnage of war that he refuses to return home after his country's defeat, and stays on, garbed as a Buddhist monk, to bury the dead. If the film was clearly a sincere castigation of the militarist fervour that swept Japan during the war, it nevertheless suffers from its rather deliberate heart-warming tone and a too leisurely pace that tends to over-emphasise moments of pathos. That said, it is hard not to be swayed by the pacifist sentiments.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Producer: Masayuki Takagi
Cast: Shoji Yasui, Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tanie Kitabayashi, Yunosuke Ito full cast
Duration: 116 mins
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