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I have seen this movie several times on videotape and am eagerly awaiting the Criterion Collection express, which it richly deserves.

The movie is spot in Burma (now Myanmar) at the destroy of WWII, impartial after the armistice. A troop of Japanese soldiers have created very tight-knitted solidarity among themselves through the efforts of Captain Inuoe, a music teacher. One of his soldiers, Muzashima, has built and mastered a Burmese harp and plays it when the unit sings in chorus.

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Captain Inoue’s troop surrender to the British, and Muzashima offers himself as a negotiator to persuade a rogue unit of Japanese soldiers cornered in a cave to give themselves up; they refuse and are bombarded and killed; Muzashima, however, escapes and disguises himself as a buddhist monk. The movie becomes very touching because as he tries to unite himself with his unit, he is treated with honor as a moank, and he begins to behave like a monk–he starts burying with estimable rituals the orphaned, exposed corpses of Japanese soldiers. He eventually finds his squad; he stands outside the fence of the prison compound; the soldiers, who acquire he has been killed, witness him even though they can peep he has become a very different person. He is serenaded with their haunting music, and he replies wordlessly by playing The Fareweall Song on his harp–but he cannot become one of them now, because he has found a mission: to give a kindly burial to all the Japanese war corpses in Burma.

I cannot justly suppose how deeply touching it is to peruse this man, a Japanese, renounce his homeland and his tighly-knit company of men he has shared the deepest of experiences with–and become a solitary, itinerant undertaker in a completely alien land. There is a transcendence and an abandonment of self that is breathtaking.

I’ve seen many movies about the life of Christ, but oddly enough, this Japanese movie, with no theological or ideological intentions, seems to assume the spirit better than any of them.

Unprejudiced in case you missed the point, I’m standing on my tiptoes to give this movie the highest rating I can: a accurate masterpiece.

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Many people, when they consider of Buddhism, mediate of glad meditation and aloof contemplation. This movie graphically depicts the other side of Buddhism;i.e., hard work in the true world, in the staunch transformation of oneself and in one’s efforts to wait on other beings, no matter how difficult or horrific the circumstances.
The film concerns a Japanese soldier separated from his unit in Burma, at the very destroy of WW II and its immediate aftermath. As he journeys to gain his unit in a POW camp, he is confronted, at every turn in this wasteland of war, with humdrum and unburied fellow Japanese soldiers. At first, he disguises himself as a Buddhist monk (shiny that the Burmese respect and feed their monks) . When he comes across British hospital staff burying an unknown Japanese soldier, with a formal Christian burial service and gigantic respect, he is transformed. He recalls the hundreds of dull and unburied Japanese soldiers he had seen in his hobble, he becomes a accurate Buddhist monk, and makes a singular and difficult vow; he will not return to Japan until he has buried all of the corpses he had seen. So he goes help, and begins his work.
Hardly jubilant meditation, this. But he personifies what the Buddha taught; the purpose of Life is to be elated, but correct happiness can only advance from serving others. This soldier/monk, in devoting his life to active, difficult and hideous work, is more a legal fulfillment of the Buddha’s teachings than is one who meditates on the weekend and wears prayer beads because it is “cold.”
Sorry to sermonize, but this movie is not only a unbelievable work of cinema, it is a Buddhist teaching in itself. Compassion MUST be coupled with the very difficult work of serving others.
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