, also known as ''Harp of Burma'', is a

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Japanese film The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that ea ...

directed by

Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films '' The Burmese Harp'' (1956) and '' Fires on the Plain'' (1959), to the documentary ''Tokyo Olympiad'' (1965), which won t ...

. The film is a color remake of the

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black-and-white '' The Burmese Harp'', which was also directed by Ichikawa.

Cast

Kiichi Nakai is a Japanese actor. His name was given by Yasujirō Ozu. His father, Keiji Sada, also a movie actor, died when Nakai was only two years old. Nakai started his acting career while he was still in university and was awarded the Rookie of the Ye ...

Kōji Ishizaka is a Japanese actor. Ishizaka graduated from Keio University with a B.L. degree. He serves as a special advisor for the Japan Plamodel Industry Association, and on 23 February 2009, he founded Rowguanes, a plastic model enthusiast group for th ...

Nenji Kobayashi is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 23rd Japan Academy Prize for ''Poppoya''. Kobayashi signed with Toei in 1961 and started his acting career with small roles. Filmography Film * '' Soshiki Bōryoku'' (1967 ...

Jun Hamamura was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 1995. Selected filmography * ''Wolf'' (1955) * '' The Burmese Harp'' (1956) * '' The Hole'' (1957) * ''The Temptress and the Monk'' (1958) * ''Enjō'' (1958) * ''Odd Obs ...

* Atsushi Watanabe

Reception

''The Burmese Harp'' was the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1985, earning ¥2.95 billion in distribution income. With an audience of 3.87 million people, it was then the second largest Japanese box office hit.Philip A. Seaton, ''Japan's Contested War Memories: The 'Memory Rifts' in Historical Consciousness of World War II'', London and New York: Routledge, 2007, p. 141. The film grossed a total of or in Japan.

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* * * 1985 films Remakes of Japanese films 1980s Japanese-language films Films directed by Kon Ichikawa Burma Campaign films Films with screenplays by Natto Wada Films set in Myanmar 1980s Japanese films {{1980s-Japan-film-stub ja:ビルマの竪琴#1985年版