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The BURMESE HARP
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Shôji Yasui stars in director Kon Ichikawa's adaptation of Michio Takeyama's antiwar novel
The BURMESE HARP
Laserdisc Edition - Criterion Collection Spine No.171
Original Japanese Language with English Subtitles
Set in Burma during the waning days of WWII , a unit of Japanese soldiers hangs on , inspired by the virtuoso Burmese harp playing of Private Mizushima . When the war finally ends , the unit is taken to an internment camp at Mudon to prepare for repatriation .
The British plan on cleaning out a pocket of die-hard Japanese mountain fighters , but Mizushima volunteers to try to persuade the men to surrender . When they refuse , the mountain garrison is wiped out , and Mizushima himself is badly wounded .
A Buddhist monk nurses the soldier back to health , and when Mizushima leaves for the camp at Mudon , he dons the garb of a monk .
As he makes his way slowly across the Burmese countryside , observing the endless of miles of torn and broken corpses , the impact of the war's waste begins to weigh on the harp player .
Mizushima begins to either burn or bury as many as he is able to , increasingly overtaken by the idée fixe of burying all the Japanese dead in the country .
An oblique yet moving film , The BURMESE HARP achieves much of its power and poignancy through the juxtaposition of the detritus and horror of war with the beauty and tranquillity of nature .
As is often the case in Japanese films , humanity is accorded a humble role in a vast universe
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Laserdisc in NTSC format , Black & White , Extended Play , Chapters Encoded , Digital Sound , running time 116 minutes
Original Japanese Language with English Subtitles
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