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At the close of World War II, a Japanese army regiment in Burma surrenders to the British. Private Mizushima is sent on a lone mission to persuade a trapped Japanese battalion to surrender also. When the outcome is a failure, he disguises himself in the robes of a Buddhist monk in hope of temporary anonymity as he journeys across the landscape but he underestimates the power of his assumed role. A visually extraordinary and deeply moving vision of horror, necessity, and redemption in the aftermath of war, Ichikawa's breakthrough film is one of the great humanitarian affirmations of the cinema. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Rentarô Mikuni
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Harakiri (1962)
Zatoichi at Large (1972)
Taketoshi Naitō
Japan
Best movies:
Kō Nishimura
Japan
Best movies:
Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
High and Low (1963)
Tatsuya Mihashi
Japan
Best movies:
High and Low (1963)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Jun Hamamura
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)
High and Low (1963)
北林谷栄
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Bullet (1968)
Intentions of Murder (1964)
My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
Shôji Yasui
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
Asao Sano
Japan
Best movies:
The Burmese Harp (1956)
Last Samurai (1974)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Tošiaki Itô
Best movies:
The Burmese Harp (1956)
Masahiko Naruse
Japan
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