The Ode to Joy

2h 15m
DramaHistoryWarMusic
4.5

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, in Japan.

Cast

Ken Matsudaira
Matsue
Bruno Ganz
Kurt Heinrich
Hiroshi Abe
Iko
Jun Kunimura
Takagi
Oliver Bootz
Carl Baum
Kostja Ullmann
Herman Lake
Suzuka Ohgo
Shio
Shirō Mifune
Unknown

Crew

Masanobu Deme
Director
Motomu Furuta
Writer
Shin'ya Tadano
Editor
Kazutami Hara
Director of Photography
Yusuke Okada
Executive Producer
Yasuhiro Fukuoka
Casting
Shinichiro Ikebe
Original Music Composer
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Art Direction

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