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One of them, Mizushima, is sent on a mission to inform another unit of the surrender and to convince them to stop fighting.
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Mizushima realizes and states at the end of the film that man cannot know why suffering exists but should try to ease the pain it inflicts.
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 Notes for Tale of Heike, Chapter 8
Mizushima was about half-way between where the Taira had ensconced themselves in Kyûshû and the Minamoto-controlled Capital.
Caught up in a battle that is lost, he fights fiercely but then returns to fight beside his out-of-shape son.
The battle is fierce and Yukiie's troops are massacred; Yukiie makes a brave escape though he had been surrounded.
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 Genpei War
1183 Battle of Mizushima - the Taira intercept a Minamoto force, heading for Yashima.
Naval battle of Dan-no-Ura in 1185.1184 Battle of Awazu - Minamoto no Yoshinaka is defeated and killed by Yoshitsune and Noriyori.
1184 Battle of Ichi-no-Tani - the Minamoto attack one of the Taira's primary fortresses.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Battle of Mizushima
The naval battle of Mizushima took place on 17 November 1183.
One of the most important bases of the Taira was Yashima, a small island off the coast of Shikoku.
The battle began with archers loosing a rain of arrows upon the Minamoto boats; when the boats were close enough, daggers and swords were drawn, and the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
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 Adults - Harp of Burma - Michio Takeyama Info
After Corporal Mizushima's unit surrenders he attempts to persuade other holdouts also to surrender without a struggle, now that the war is coming to an end.
They refuse and in the final battle Mizushima is injured and rescued by a Buddhist monk.
Thus begins a spiritual journey for Mizushima which ends with him adopting the robes of a monk and travelling the countryside, cremating and burying the war dead.
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 SciFi Japan » DVD REVIEW: THE BURMESE HARP
Mizushima is asked by the British troops via Captain Inouye to go North and persuade a group of soldiers holding out on a mountain to surrender or face death.
Mizushima is wounded but is found by a Buddhist monk who cares for him and nurses him back to health.
Mizushima is transformed by what he has seen and turns himself into a monk.
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940: Battle of Kojima, which ended the rebellion of Taira Masakado.
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