The Burmese Harp (1956)

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.

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Released 1956-01-21 · 117 min · Drama, War

Directed by Kon Ichikawa

Cast

Rentaro Mikuni as Captain Inouye
Shōji Yasui as Mizushima
Jun Hamamura as Ito
Taketoshi Naitō as Kobayashi
Shunji Kasuga as Maki
Kō Nishimura as Baba
Keishichi Nakahara as Takagi
Toshiaki Itō as Hashimoto
Hiroshi Tsuchikata as Okada
Tomio Aoki as Oyama
Nobuteru Hanamura as Nakamura
Sanpei Mine as Abe
Takashi Koshiba as Shimizu
Tokuhei Miyahara as Nagai
Masahiko Naruse

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