In the Wars 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.
1956
HD
117min
Japan
Japanese
Kon Ichikawa
Rentaro Mikuni
Shōji Yasui
Jun Hamamura
Taketoshi Naitō
Kō Nishimura
Toshiaki It?
Shunji Kasuga
Keishichi Nakahara
Hiroshi Tsuchikata
world war ii
japan
buddhism
choir
pacific war
buddhist monk
burma
japanese soldier
japanese surrender
moral crisis
