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Biruma no tategoto / Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha seisaku ; gensaku Takeyama Michio ; kyakuhon Wada Natto ; kantoku Ichikawa Kon.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1685D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Japanese, Burmese Original language: Japanese, Burmese Series: Criterion collection ; 379.Publication details: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection : Janus Films, �2007.Description: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1934121290
  • 9781934121290
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .B57 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Battalion song -- "All clear" -- Unexpected reception -- "Home, Sweet Home" -- Mizushima's mission -- Thirty minutes -- MIA -- Priest -- "Burma is the Buddha's country" -- Burning the dead -- Poor souls -- "I know now. . ." -- Burmese ruby -- "That's how Mizushima played it" -- Parrot speaks -- White box -- Inside the Buddha -- Old woman honors a request -- Song of farewell -- Other parrot -- Returning home -- "My captain and brothers at arms" -- Penitent wanderer always.
Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Yokoyama, Minoru ; music, Ifukube Akira ; editor, Masanori Tsujii.
Awards:
  • 1956 Venice Film Festival San Giorgio Prize winner--Kon Ichikawa, OCIC Award-Honorable Mention--Kon Ichikawa.
  • 1956 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film (Harp of Burma).
Cast: Mikuni Rentaro, Yasui Shoji, Hamamura Jun.Summary: "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, stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment disguising himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment. Magnificently shot in hushed black and white"--Container.
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DVD DVD Karen H. Huntsman Library Audio Visual Materials DVD 791.4372 B929h 1 Available 38060007488042

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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956.

Special features: Kon Ichikawa interview ; Rentaro Mikuni interview ; trailer.

Battalion song -- "All clear" -- Unexpected reception -- "Home, Sweet Home" -- Mizushima's mission -- Thirty minutes -- MIA -- Priest -- "Burma is the Buddha's country" -- Burning the dead -- Poor souls -- "I know now. . ." -- Burmese ruby -- "That's how Mizushima played it" -- Parrot speaks -- White box -- Inside the Buddha -- Old woman honors a request -- Song of farewell -- Other parrot -- Returning home -- "My captain and brothers at arms" -- Penitent wanderer always.

Cinematography, Yokoyama, Minoru ; music, Ifukube Akira ; editor, Masanori Tsujii.

Mikuni Rentaro, Yasui Shoji, Hamamura Jun.

"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, stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment disguising himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment. Magnificently shot in hushed black and white"--Container.

DVD ; code 1 ; Dolby digital mono, aspect ratio 1.33:1, NTSC.

In Japanese or Burmese with optional English subtitles.

1956 Venice Film Festival San Giorgio Prize winner--Kon Ichikawa, OCIC Award-Honorable Mention--Kon Ichikawa.

1956 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film (Harp of Burma).

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