Biruma no tategoto  [videorecording] / 
Title from English subtitles:  Burmese harp 
[Janus Films ; Nikkatsu Corp. ; produced by Masayuki Takagi ; original story, Michio Takeyama ; screenplay, Natto Wada ; directed by Kon Ichikawa]. 
 - Standard format (1.33:1). 
, Japan. 
 - [Irvington, N.Y.] :  Criterion Collection,  c2007. 
 - 1 videodisc (116 min.) :  sd., b&w ;  4 3/4 in. +  1 booklet (16 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) 
 - Criterion collection ;  379 .
 - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;  379. .
<br/><br/> 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"). 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/>Cinematography, Minoru Yokoyama ; edited by Masanori Tsujii ; music, Akira Ifukube.  Cinematography, Minoru Yokoyama ; edited by Masanori Tsujii ; music, Akira Ifukube. 
<br/><br/>Rentaro Mikuni, Shoji Yasui, Jun Hamamura, Taketoshi Naito, Ko Nishimura, Shunji Kasuga, Tanie Kitabayashi, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yunosuke Ito. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><br/>DVD, region 1; Dolby digital mono. 
<br/><br/><br/>In Japanese & Burmese, with optional English subtitles. 
<br/><br/> 1956 Venice Film Festival San Giorgio Prize winner--Kon Ichikawa, OCIC Award-Honorable Mention--Kon Ichikawa. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1934121290 9781934121290 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>715515022729 
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>CC1685D  Criterion Collection 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Japan. Rikugun --Drama.<br/>Japan. Rikugun --Drama.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Military deserters--Burma--Drama.<br/>Buddhist monks--Burma--Drama.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Burma--Drama.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Burma--Drama.<br/>Japanese language materials--Videorecordings.<br/>Burmese language materials--Videorecordings.<br/>Cine Japonés (inglés)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Burma--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945--Drama.<br/>Burma--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945--Drama.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Anti-war films.<br/>War films.<br/>Historical films.<br/>Fiction films.<br/>Feature films.<br/>Feature films--Japan.<br/>War--Feature.<br/>War films.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CM DVD 01215 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/72