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1956

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Kon Ichikawa's antiwar classic depicts the aftermath of the Burmese campaign of World War II and centres on a soldier who, after a series of horrifying experiences, comes to realize that his vocation is to bury the unknown dead. Read more

Starring	Rentaro Mikuni, Shoji Yasui, Jun Hamamura, Taketoshi Naito
Director	Kon Ichikawa
Genres	Action/Adventure, Drama, World Cinema

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Starring	Rentaro Mikuni, Shoji Yasui, Jun Hamamura, Taketoshi Naito, Ko Nishimura, Akira Nishimura, Tanie Kitabayashi
Director	Kon Ichikawa
Studio	EUREKA VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 57 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 57 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Japanese Blu-ray: Japanese
Subtitles	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Released	Production year: 1956 To Rent: DVD: Unavailable for rental Blu-ray: Unavailable for rental To Buy: DVD: 01 Jan 1920 Blu-ray: 23 Aug 2010

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- Deeply impressive and horrifying war film with an epic, folk-tale quality, emphasized by superbly controlled direction.
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  Not so much an anti-war film as one dealing with the tragic aftermath left by war. In Burma as the war ends a Japanese soldier is wounded trying to get his ... read more »
  
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  This is an extraordinary film. Poetic, original and tells a story I had never seen....which is about the Japanese army having to surrender in Burma. The ... read more »
  
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  could not get into this one at all i was really looking forward to it as well but i dont know just really could not get into it and i love historical event ... read more »
  
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  Not so much an anti-war film as one dealing with the tragic aftermath left by war. In Burma as the war ends a Japanese soldier is wounded trying to get his ... read more »
  
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  Set against the final days of World War II, THE BURMESE HARP portrays the experiences of a group of exhausted, war-scarred Japanese soldiers as they prepare to return to Japan. The film focuses on Shoji Yasui, a soldier known to his comrades for his harp playing, who fails to convince a resistant ...

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  Kon Ichikawa's antiwar classic depicts the aftermath of the Burmese campaign of World War II and centres on a soldier who, after a series of horrifying experiences, comes to realize that his vocation is to bury the unknown dead....