L'arpa birmana

Titolo originale: ビルマの竪琴
Regia: Kon Ichikawa |
Anno: 1956
Origine: Japan |
Generi: Dramma Guerra
Tag: 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 |
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni | Shōji Yasui | Jun Hamamura | Taketoshi Naitō | Shunji Kasuga | Kō Nishimura | Keishichi Nakahara | Toshiaki Itō | Hiroshi Tsuchikata | Tomio Aoki | Nobuteru Hanamura | Sanpei Mine | Takashi Koshiba | Tokuhei Miyahara | 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 |

Negli ultimi giorni della seconda guerra mondiale un soldato giapponese non riesce a far accettare la sconfitta ai propri commilitoni, decide quindi di diventare un monaco buddhista.

Frasi

Ito: Get that damn bird out of here! Old woman: [...] D
Mizushima: Why do you play that tune? Boy: If I [...] D
Ito: Old lady, do you think you could give this [...] D
Kobayashi: That monk was Mizushima after all. Bu [...] D
Kobayashi: We often sang. Our captain had gradua [...] D
Captain Inouye: [Excerpt from Mizushima's letter [...] D
Captain Inouye: Clap your hands! Laugh! They cou [...] D
Captain Inouye: A Japanese unit has been holding [...] D
Old monk: Can't you see that whatever you do is [...] D
Mizushima: Can you see the Himalayas? Village h [...] D
Mizushima: I'm Mizushima from Inouye Company. I' [...] D
Ito: Captain! What's the point of training it to [...] D
Kobayashi: The war ended long ago, but it left i [...] D
Mizushima: If only we had time to discuss it cal [...] D
Voice of Inouye's parrot: Mizushima, let's retur [...] D
Captain Inouye: We have surrendered. Not only us [...] D
Captain Inouye: Why don't we sing? Singing is me [...] D
Captain Inouye: Hey... Ito: What is it? Captai [...] D
Mizushima: PFC Mizushima reporting. I'm leaving [...] D
Captain Inouye: The songs uplifted our spirits a [...] D
British officer: We've done all we can. The troo [...] D
Captain Inouye: Mizushima... so it was you after [...] D
Mizushima: Captain, you're responsible for these [...] D
Kobayashi: It's true that I hadn't given Mizushi [...] D
Voice of Mizushima's parrot: No, I can't go back [...] D
Subtitles: [Last lines] The soil of Burma is red [...] D
Defense Commander: A coward like you can't be Ja [...] D
Captain Inouye: Sing! They're forming a line in [...] D
Ito: That's enough! Captain... I know it's disap [...] D