Voice of Inouye's parrot: Mizushima, let's return to Japan together.
British officer: We've done all we can. The troops that took Triangle Mountain have returned home. The Japanese survivors are not in this town.

Captain Inouye: But that tune?

British officer: You hear a certain way of playing - a few notes floating by the breeze, and it's enough to make you think a dead man is alive. You must be dreaming.

British officer: [to his adjutant] He must be dreaming!
Captain Inouye: The songs uplifted our spirits and sometimes our hearts.
Voice of Mizushima's parrot: No, I can't go back.
Subtitles: [Last lines] The soil of Burma is red, and so are its rocks!
Captain Inouye: [Excerpt from Mizushima's letter, which Captain Inouye reads to his men as they sail back to Japan] As I climbed mountains and crossed streams, burying the bodies left in the grasses and streams, my heart was wracked with questions. Why must the world suffer such misery? Why must there be such inexplicable pain? As the days passed, I came to understand. I realized that, in the end, the answers were not for human beings to know, that our work is simply to ease the great suffering of the world. To have the courage to face suffering, senselessness and irrationality without fear, to find the strength to create peace by one's own example. I will undergo whatever training is necessary for this to become my unshakable conviction.

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The Burmese Harp short comments

Jocelyn 2022-04-20 09:02:25

We are taught that war criminals are beasts. Now, how vulnerable those are. Our black-and-white films have no exterior locations, no foreigners who speak foreign languages, no collective portrayal, no reflection on human nature. Saw the British epaulettes, speaking with an authentic British accent, and the faint British horn in the background. I'm kind of moved because this is a real movie.
Icie 2022-04-19 09:02:44

This film is based on the perspective of the Japanese soldiers, which increases the sympathy for the compatriots and the divine will of the Buddha, but on the contrary, the pain of the war, the devastation to the local people, and even the local people's perspective are all ignored. , so that the film can only eventually become a work that resonates with local Japanese audiences.