- HD 1080
- Runtime: 117m.
- Status: Released
0
- Languages: ja
- Country: Japan
- Director: Kon Ichikawa
- Stars: Rentaro Mikuni, Shōji Yasui, Jun Hamamura, Taketoshi Naitō, Shunji Kasuga
- keywords: japan, buddhism, buddhist monk, world war ii, choir, burma, pacific war, japanese soldier, japanese surrender, moral crisis, burying the dead, pow, religious experience, power of music
- Production_studio: Nikkatsu Corporation
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The The Burmese Harp is featured in the top rankings of 1956
- #3 in Top Drama Movies of 1956
- #1 in Top War Movies of 1956
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.
