MinoruYokoyama &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:MinoruYokoyama @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:57:16 +0200 ビルマの竪琴 [Biruma no tategoto / The Burmese Harp] (Kon Ichikawa, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-537l <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" ビルマの竪琴 [Biruma no tategoto / The Burmese Harp] (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" 花祭り/div div class="img" ビルマの竪琴 (1956)/div div class="caption" Mizushima (Shōji Yasui) holding his harp, looked over by the reclining Buddha. DP: Minoru Yokoyama./div div class="txt" A film about Buddhism, or set in Japan, in honour of the birth of Buddha, celebrated in Japan on April 8 as 花祭り (Hana Matsuri, aka Flower Festival) "Can't you see that whatever you do is futile? The armies of Britain and Japan can come and fight all they wish. Burma is still Burma. Burma is the Buddha's country." ### – old monk While stationed in Burma, Mizushima disguises himself as a dhutanga, a wandering Buddhist monk, burying the remains of his fellow Japanese soldiers./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #HanaMatsuri #KonIchikawa #MichioTakeyama #RentarōMikuni #ShōjiYasui #JunHamamura #TaketoshiNaitō #KōNishimura #TomioAoki #YōjiNagahama #AkiraIfukube #MinoruYokoyama #drama #BookAdaptation #drama #WW2 #war #religion #Buddhism #Japan #1950s/div /section ]]>

ビルマの竪琴 [Biruma no tategoto / The Burmese Harp] (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)

Apr

8

花祭り

ビルマの竪琴 (1956)

Mizushima (Shōji Yasui) holding his harp, looked over by the reclining Buddha. DP: Minoru Yokoyama.

A film about Buddhism, or set in Japan, in honour of the birth of Buddha, celebrated in Japan on April 8 as 花祭り (Hana Matsuri, aka Flower Festival)

“Can't you see that whatever you do is futile? The armies of Britain and Japan can come and fight all they wish. Burma is still Burma. Burma is the Buddha's country.”

– old monk

While stationed in Burma, Mizushima disguises himself as a dhutanga, a wandering Buddhist monk, burying the remains of his fellow Japanese soldiers.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #HanaMatsuri #KonIchikawa #MichioTakeyama #RentarōMikuni #ShōjiYasui #JunHamamura #TaketoshiNaitō #KōNishimura #TomioAoki #YōjiNagahama #AkiraIfukube #MinoruYokoyama #drama #BookAdaptation #drama #WW2 #war #religion #Buddhism #Japan #1950s

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