Myanmar's Harp

Kon Ichikawa
Kintaro Miura, Akira Nishimura, Takeo Naito, Eiichi Nakamura, Eijirō Katsunuma, Shōji Yasunaga
1956
Japan
Completed
Japanese, English
116 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asビルマの竪琴,is aJapanProducerwomen sex,At1956Released in year
。The dialogue language isJapanese, English,Current Douban rating7.9(For reference only)。
In July 1945, as the war in Southeast Asia was coming to an end, a group of Japanese soldiers was on their way to Thailand. Corporal Mizushima (played by Shōji Yasunaga), under the command of a captain from a music academy, lifted the soldiers' spirits with a self-taught harp, comforting their sorrowful thoughts. He later achieved a spiritual connection with the British soldiers who accepted their surrender through music. Mizushima received a mission to persuade a group of defiant Japanese soldiers to surrender. However, those soldiers refused to accept the Emperor's orders, and ultimately all perished in battle. Mizushima, who miraculously survived, was saved by an elderly monk from Myanmar. He stole the monk's robes and buried the bodies of Japanese soldiers on his way to the POW camp. Upon arriving at the camp, he witnessed a funeral held by the British for their fallen comrades, which led him to a realization. He returned to bury the remains of his compatriots whom he had abandoned out of fear. Mizushima's comrades tried various means to find out his whereabouts, and he eventually informed them that he still had responsibilities to fulfill... This film was ranked fifth in the top ten of 1956 by "Film Weekly" and won the St. George Award at the Venice Film Festival.