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The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴, Biruma no Tategoto), also known as Harp of Burma, is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa. The film is a color remake of the 1956 black-and-white The Burmese Harp, which was also directed by Ichikawa.
Jul 20, 1985 · The Burmese Harp: Directed by Kon Ichikawa. With Kôji Ishizaka, Kiichi Nakai, Takuzô Kawatani, Atsushi Watanabe. After becoming separated from his platoon, a Japanese soldier dons a Buddhist monk's robe and tends to the bodies of the many war casualties strewn across the countryside.
- (196)
- Drama, War
- Kon Ichikawa
- 1985-07-20
The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴, Biruma no tategoto), also known as Harp of Burma, is a children's novel by Michio Takeyama. It was first published in 1946 and was the basis of two films by Kon Ichikawa – one released in 1956 and a color remake in 1985.
- 道雄 竹山, Howard Hibbett
- 1946
Jul 6, 2024 · In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
- Kon Ichikawa
- 4
- Rentaro Mikuni
- 117 min
When a Japanese platoon surrenders to British forces in Burma in 1943, the platoon's harp player, Mizushima (Shôji Yasui), is selected from the prisoners of war to deliver a request for surrender...
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- Shôji Yasui
- Kon Ichikawa
- War
Mar 16, 2007 · In 1985, Ichikawa himself remade the film in color. The new Burmese Harp, financed by Fuji TV after Toho turned it down, was rather obviously influenced in tone and visual rhetoric by Oshima Nagisa’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, released two years earlier.
Kiichi Nakai Cast. Takuzo Kawatani Cast. Atsushi Watanabe Cast. Michio Takeyama Screenplay. Natto Wada Screenplay. Setsuo Kobayashi Cinematography. Critics reviews. Kon Ichikawa’s color remake of his own classic 1956 film of the same name.
