Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
- japan
- buddhism
- buddhist monk
- world war ii
- choir
- burma
- pacific war
- japanese soldier
- japanese surrender
- moral crisis
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Shunji Kasuga — Maki
- Kō Nishimura — Baba
- Keishichi Nakahara — Takagi
- Toshiaki Itō — Hashimoto
- Hiroshi Tsuchikata — Okada
- Tomio Aoki — Oyama
- Nobuteru Hanamura — Nakamura
- Sanpei Mine — Abe
- Takashi Koshiba — Shimizu
- Tokuhei Miyahara — Nagai
- Masahiko Naruse
- Directed
- Kon Ichikawa
- Written
- Natto Wada
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 173 ratings
- Studio
- Nikkatsu Corporation
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