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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.
Keywords
japan
buddhism
buddhist monk
world war ii
choir
burma
pacific war
japanese soldier
japanese surrender
moral crisis
burying the dead
pow
religious experience
power of music
Casts
Rentaro Mikuni
Captain Inouye
Shōji Yasui
Mizushima
Jun Hamamura
Ito
Taketoshi Naitō
Kobayashi
Shunji Kasuga
Maki
Kō Nishimura
Baba
Keishichi Nakahara
Takagi
Toshiaki Itō
Hashimoto
Hiroshi Tsuchikata
Okada
Tomio Aoki
Oyama
Nobuteru Hanamura
Nakamura
Sanpei Mine
Abe
Takashi Koshiba
Shimizu
Tokuhei Miyahara
Nagai
Masahiko Naruse
Bin Moritsuka
Kunitaro Sawamura
Eiji Nakamura
Asao Sano
Shojiro Ogasawara
Tanie Kitabayashi
Tatsuya Mihashi
Yūnosuke Itō
Shōki Fukae
Hiroshi Ichimura
Keiji Itami
Jun Kizaki
Crews
Kon Ichikawa
Director
Michio Takeyama
Novel
Masayuki Takaki
Producer
Akira Ifukube
Original Music Composer
Masanori Tsujii
Editor
Minoru Yokoyama
Director of Photography
Natto Wada
Screenplay
Akira Nakai
Production Design
Takashi Matsuyama
Art Direction
Toshio Masuda
Assistant Director
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