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Movie Description
This epic of the Burmese Campaign of 1943-1944 centers on a soldier who after horrifying adventures sees that his vocation is to bury the unknown dead.
Synopsis
This anti-war classic takes its perspective from that of a Japanese soldier at the twilight of the Second World War.
Despite his platoon's wish to march to neutral territory, Private Mizushima wants to stay in Burma. After he treks to the mountains to bring word of Japan's surrender, this harp-playing scout is shot. Left for dead, the man is later rescued by a Buddhist holy man. Now clad in a robe and collar, Mizushima walks amid the severed limbs and frozen expressions of his homeland's dead.
He begins the arduous process of a mass burial, and, in the process, he converts to a pacifist way of thinking.
Film Notes
The print used for the Home Vision Cinema VHS version is from the Janus collection.
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