Burmese harp
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Original release title in Japan: Biruma no tategoto.; Original U.S. release title: Harp of Burma.; 1.33 aspect ratio.; Running time: 01:56:00.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Script, Natto Wada; camera, Minoru Yokoyama; art direction, So Matsuyama; editor, Masanari Tsuji; music, Akira Ifukube.; [Cast:] Shoji Yasui, Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tanie Kitabayashi, Yunosuke Ito.; PFA 1616-108-8452. D0108; In Japanese with English and Chinese subtitles.
Private Mizushima is the harp (or saung) player of Captain Inouye's group, composed of soldiers who fight and sing to raise morale in the World War II Burma Campaign. Mizushima becomes a Japanese soldier who is almost shot by the hold-out soldiers before they realize he is Japanese. He tells the British that the war has ended with the Japanese surrender, and so they surrender to the British. He is helped to recover from his injuries by a monk.
Private Mizushima is the harp (or saung) player of Captain Inouye's group, composed of soldiers who fight and sing to raise morale in the World War II Burma Campaign. Mizushima becomes a Japanese soldier who is almost shot by the hold-out soldiers before they realize he is Japanese. He tells the British that the war has ended with the Japanese surrender, and so they surrender to the British. He is helped to recover from his injuries by a monk.
Credits
- Ichikawa, Kon, 1915-2008.
- Takagi, Masayuki, 1930-
- Wada, Natto.
- Yokoyama, Minoru, 1943-
- Matsuyama, So.
- Tsuji, Masanari.
- Ifukube, Akira, 1914-2006.
- Yasui, Shōji.
- Mikuni, Rentarō, 1923-2013
- Mihashi, Tatsuya, 1923-2004.
- Kitabayashi, Tanie, 1911-2010
- Ito, Yūnosuke.
- Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha.
- Harp of Burma.
- Cast
- Rentarō Mikuni, Shoji Yasui
Sources
- BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, credits
Record added 2026-09-13 16:09:35