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The Burmese Harp

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The Burmese Harp	comment	The Burmese Harp is a 1956 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It opens in August 1945, focusing on a Japanese Army unit that is trying to escape to Thailand ahead of the British advance. Private Mizushima has acquired a Burmese harp that he plays while the men of his unit sing on the march. One day Mizushima's unit, led by Captain Inouye, is relaxing in a Burmese village when they realize that a British unit is advancing on their position. The squad starts singing to cover the noise while they form in combat formation—only to be answered by the British singing "There's No Place Like Home". Inouye's unit thus finds out that Japan has surrendered and the war is over.The soldiers are in a POW camp when an Australian officer asks for a volunteer to go to another Japanese unit that is refusing to surrender. Private Mizushima volunteers and is sent out to the Japanese unit, with 30 minutes to talk them into surrendering. He fails, as the other unit decides to fight it out. The British attack, the Japanese unit is annihilated, and Pvt. Mizushima is presumed to have been killed along with them. Capt. Inouye and his men remain in the POW camp when one day, as they return from their manual labor duties, they see a very familiar-looking monk...The Burmese Harp was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but lost to La Strada. In 1985 Ichikawa remade the film in color.
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The Burmese Harp / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Burmese Harp / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Capt. Inouye is desperate to find Mizushima, and regrets not going on the mission to the other unit himself.
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The Burmese Harp / int_1dae374	type	POW Camp
The Burmese Harp / int_1dae374	comment	POW Camp: Much of the action takes place in the camp where the soldiers are held after they surrender.
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The Burmese Harp / int_246989a4	type	Circling Vultures
The Burmese Harp / int_246989a4	comment	Circling Vultures: As Mizushima is trying to make his way back to his unit's POW camp, he stumbles across a ravine littered with Japanese corpses, with vultures already snacking.
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The Burmese Harp / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
The Burmese Harp / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: Mizushima's fate, as he explains in a letter to Capt. Inouye that Inouye reads to the men as they are sailing for home. He has determined to stay behind in Burma, wandering around and giving a decent burial to any dead Japanese soldiers that he finds.
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The Burmese Harp / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
The Burmese Harp / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Most of the soldiers in the unit that Mizushima fails to talk into surrendering.
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The Burmese Harp / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Burmese Harp / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Mizushima steals a monk's robes in order to evade capture as a POW. In the end, he has become a monk.
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The Burmese Harp / int_630910ba	type	Finger-Twitching Revival
The Burmese Harp / int_630910ba	comment	Finger-Twitching Revival: This is how Mizushima, knocked unconscious by the British bombardment, is shown to still be alive.
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The Burmese Harp / int_8c431fe4	type	Band of Brothers
The Burmese Harp / int_8c431fe4	comment	Band of Brothers: The men of Mizushima's unit hand over all their meager possessions to a local woman in order to get word of what happened to him.
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The Burmese Harp / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
The Burmese Harp / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Single Tear: From Mizushima, after finally meeting his old comrades inside the POW camp, before he turns and walks away forever.
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The Burmese Harp / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Burmese Harp / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Mizushima becomes dedicated to doing this. He buries some of the bodies he finds in the ravine, then later gets some help from locals to bury a ghastly pile of Japanese corpses he finds by a river.
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The Burmese Harp / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
The Burmese Harp / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: Mizushima elects to stay behind in Burma, burying bodies, rather than go home with his comrades.
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The Burmese Harp / int_eafe9e0e	type	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen
The Burmese Harp / int_eafe9e0e	comment	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: A rare non-comic, non-sexual example of this trope. The monk that rescued Mizushima from the cave and nursed him back to health takes a bath in a river one day. Mizushima promptly steals his monk's robes and takes off, intending to avoid capture by the British.
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The Burmese Harp / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Burmese Harp / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Entire film showing the miserable nature of the Second World War along with Mizushima dealing with trauma from it.
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The Burmese Harp / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
The Burmese Harp / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: Mizushima begs the Japanese unit holding out in a mountain cave to surrender. They refuse angrily, and are destroyed.
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The Burmese Harp	hasFeature	Band of Brothers / int_7c52fa49
The Burmese Harp	hasFeature	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen / int_7c52fa49
The Burmese Harp	hasFeature	POW Camp / int_7c52fa49
The Burmese Harp	hasFeature	Prison Films / int_7c52fa49

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