TY  - ADVS
AU  - Takagi,Masayuki
AU  - Wada,Natsuto
AU  - Ichikawa,Kon
AU  - Mikuni,Rentaråo
AU  - Yasui,Shåoji
AU  - Hamamura,Jun
AU  - Naito,Taketoshi
AU  - Nishimura,Akira
AU  - Kasuga,Shunji
AU  - Kitabayashi,Tanie
AU  - Mihashi,Tatsuya
AU  - Ito,Yunosuke
AU  - Ifukube,Akira
AU  - Takeyama,Michio
AU  - Rayns,Tony
ED  - Janus Films.
ED  - Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha.
ED  - Criterion Collection (Firm)
TI  - Biruma no tategoto
T2  - Criterion collection
SN  - 1934121290
AV  - CM DVD 01215 
U1  - 791.43/72 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - [Irvington, N.Y.]
PB  - Criterion Collection
KW  - Japan
KW  - Rikugun
KW  - Drama
KW  - Military deserters
KW  - Burma
KW  - Buddhist monks
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Japanese language materials
KW  - Videorecordings
KW  - Burmese language materials
KW  - Cine Japonés (inglés)
KW  - History
KW  - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
KW  - Anti-war films
KW  - War films
KW  - Historical films
KW  - Fiction films
KW  - Feature films
KW  - War
KW  - Feature
KW  - migfg
KW  - gsafd
N1  - English credits from subtitles; Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956; Special features (in Japanese with English subtitles, 32 min.): Kon Ichikawa interview (2005, 16 min.); Rentaro Mikuni interview (2006, 12 min.); original theatrical trailer (4 min.); color bars; Booklet includes an essay by Tony Rayns ("Unknown soldiers"); Battalion song -- "All clear" -- Unexpected reception -- "Home, Sweet Home" -- Mizushima's mission -- Thirty minutes -- MIA -- Priest -- "Burma is the Buddha's country" -- Burning the dead -- Poor souls -- "I know now. . ." -- Burmese ruby -- "That's how Mizushima played it" -- Parrot speaks -- White box -- Inside the Buddha -- Old woman honors a request -- Song of farewell -- Other parrot -- Returning home -- "My captain and brothers at arms" -- Penitent wanderer always; Cinematography, Minoru Yokoyama ; edited by Masanori Tsujii ; music, Akira Ifukube; Rentaro Mikuni, Shoji Yasui, Jun Hamamura, Taketoshi Naito, Ko Nishimura, Shunji Kasuga, Tanie Kitabayashi, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yunosuke Ito
N2  - "An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment disguising himself as a Buddhist monk ... An eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death [that] remains one of Japanese cinema's most overwhelming antiwar statements, both tender and brutal in its grappling with Japan's wartime legacy" -- Container
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