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.
Top Billed Cast
Ken Matsudaira
Matsue
Bruno Ganz
Kurt Heinrich
Hiroshi Abe
Iko
Jun Kunimura
Takagi
Oliver Bootz
Carl Baum
Featured Crew
Kazutami Hara
Director of Photography
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Art Direction
Masanobu Deme
Director
Motomu Furuta
Writer
Shinichirô Ikebe
Original Music Composer
Shin'ya Tadano
Editor
Yusuke Okada
Executive Producer
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