The Ode to Joy

6.0/ 10 3 votes 2006-06-17 2h 15m 1 popularity

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.

Director: Masanobu Deme

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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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