Biruma no tategoto
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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. Magnificently shot in hushed black and white, Kon Ichikawa’s 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. (Criterion)
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Rentarô Mikuni
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Harakiri (1962)
Zatoichi at Large (1972)
Taketoshi Naitō
Japan
Best movies:
Kō Nishimura
Japan
Best movies:
Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)
High and Low (1963)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Tatsuya Mihashi
Japan
Best movies:
High and Low (1963)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Jun Hamamura
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)
High and Low (1963)
北林谷栄
Japan
Best movies:
Human Bullet, The (1968)
Intentions of Murder (1964)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Shôji Yasui
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
Asao Sano
Japan
Best movies:
The Burmese Harp (1956)
Last Samurai (1974)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Tošiaki Itô
Best movies:
The Burmese Harp (1956)
Masahiko Naruse
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)