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The Burmese harp [DVD] = Biruma no tategoto
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[DVD] = [Janus Films ; Nikkatsu Corp. ; produced by Masayuki Takagi ; original story, Michio Takeyama ; screenplay, Natto Wada ; directed by Kon Ichikawa].
Uniform Title:
Biruma no tategoto (Motion picture)
Edition:
Standard format (1.33:1).
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2007.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
ISBN:
9781934121290
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General Note:
Title from container and disc.
English credits from subtitles.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956.
Special features (in Japanese with English subtitles, 32 min.): Kon Ichikawa interview (2005, 16 min.); Rentaro Mikuni interview (2006, 12 min.); original theatrical trailer (4 min.); color bars.
Booklet includes an essay by Tony Rayns ("Unknown soldiers").
Abstract:
"An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment disguising himself as a Buddhist monk ... An eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death [that] remains one of Japanese cinema's most overwhelming antiwar statements, both tender and brutal in its grappling with Japan's wartime legacy"--Container.
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Parallel title: Biruma no tategoto
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.
Credits:
Cinematography, Minoru Yokoyama ; edited by Masanori Tsujii ; music, Akira Ifukube.
Performer:
Rentaro Mikuni, Shoji Yasui, Jun Hamamura, Taketoshi Naito, Ko Nishimura, Shunji Kasuga, Tanie Kitabayashi, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yunosuke Ito.
Technical Details:
DVD, region 1; Dolby digital mono.
Language:
In Japanese & Burmese, with optional English subtitles.