Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Kon Ichikawa’s The Burmese Harp (1956) is one of those movies I’ve heard about for years—or at least seen on lists of key Japanese ...

The 1956 Japanese film “The Burmese Harp” tells the story of a Japanese infantry unit in Burma (now Myanmar) at the tail end of World War II, and in its meticulous storytelling it achieves a form of ...

The Burmese Harp explores themes of the senselessness of war, the importance of comradeship and friendship and the emotions felt by soldiers over the loss of a friend. Director Kon Ichikawa is known ...

Mizushima is a soldier in the Japanese army in Burma in World War II. He's a good soldier and frequently plays his harp to entertain his fellow soldiers. When the war comes to an end, he is asked by ...

It has been a remarkable month for those interested in the 45 titles of the Vatican film list. Four weeks ago, Criterion released a definitive new edition of Bicycle Thieves, followed a week later by ...

John H. Lienhard is the author and voice of The Engines of Our Ingenuity and professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and history at the University of Houston. He will discuss the movie The ...

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In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.