The Burmese Harp
ビルマの竪琴 (original)
An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close of World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment. THE BURMESE HARP is an eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death and remains one of Japanese cinema’s most overwhelming antiwar statements, both tender and brutal in its grappling with Japan’s wartime legacy.
Starring Rentaro Mikuni, Shōji Yasui, Jun Hamamura, Taketoshi Naitō, Shunji Kasuga, Kō Nishimura, Keishichi Nakahara, Toshiaki Itô, Hiroshi Tsuchikata, Tomio Aoki
Watch "The Burmese Harp" on Criterion Channel released in 1956. It's a drama and war movie, and has a rating of 8 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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