The Burmese Harp

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.

Cast

Rentaro Mikuni

as Captain Inouye

Shōji Yasui

as Mizushima

Jun Hamamura

as Ito

Taketoshi Naitō

as Kobayashi

Shunji Kasuga

as Maki

Kō Nishimura

as Baba

Keishichi Nakahara

as Takagi

Toshiaki Itō

as Hashimoto

Hiroshi Tsuchikata

as Okada

Tomio Aoki

as Oyama

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