Movie2006135 minReleased

The Ode to Joy

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.

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Yomiuri Shimbun Company

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135 min

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Cast

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Featured 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

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Kazutami Hara

Director of Photography

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Yoshinobu Nishioka

Art Direction

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Masanobu Deme

Director

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Motomu Furuta

Writer

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Shinichiro Ikebe

Original Music Composer

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Shin'ya Tadano

Editor

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Yusuke Okada

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Production

Yasuhiro Fukuoka

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1360 × 765

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6.0

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