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	The Burmese Piano Music of U Ko Ko
		The two main traditional ensembles for Burmese music are the the gong and drum ensemble, the hsaing(138k) and the chamber ensemble, in which the Burmese harp, saung gauk,(163K) and the bambo xylophone, patala are used prominently.
		The language of musical associations is very rich and was a important factor in the manner in which the piano was adopted for the playing of Burmese music for the silent films.
		This harp-derived ornamentation style came to dominate the playing style for all Burmese music, chamber music and hsaing ensemble, to such a degree that it now seems independent of its origins on the harp.
	research.umbc.edu /efhm/garfias/burma1.html (1749 words)

	Tokyo Olympiad
		Ichikawa is perhaps best known for his antiwar films, including The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), as well as for his somewhat quirky films based on famous Japanese literary works, such as Odd Obsession (1959), The Broken Commandment (1962), I Am a Cat (1975), and The Makioka Sisters (1983).
		Stunned by Ichikawa's unconventional documentary of what was perhaps Japan's proudest moment in the 20th century, the Board asked Ichikawa if he couldn't redo the film more to their liking.
		Ichikawa mounted an enormous effort to capture the games on film: 164 cameramen, more than 100 cameras, live synch sound using microphones buried all over the new Olympic stadium -- overall he spent nearly a million dollars (that's 1964 dollars!) making the film.
	academic.evergreen.edu /curricular/japan/Olympiad.htm (454 words)

	Amazon.com: Fires on the Plain (1962) : Video
		Worthy to stand beside Kon Ichikawa's antiwar masterpiece The Burmese Harp, this chilling film focuses intensely on the brutality of war and man's unwavering passion for life.
		In Ichikawa Kon's film _The Harp of Burma_ the company of soldiers led by Captain Inoue, although a bit travel worn and homesick, looked at least to be in decent health and well fed in the foreign environs of Burma.
		Ichikawa's images have a barbaric splendor and dreamlike aura, reinforced by the dissonant, percussive soundtrack with its echoes of Bartok.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302844282?v=glance (1398 words)

	Akira Ifukube - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Ifukube went on to write more than 250 film scores in a career lasting 50 years, including some of the most respected movies ever made in Japan, among them Harp Of Burma (aka The Burmese Harp), for which he would appropriate the funereal music from his Gojira score and expand on its thematic material.
		Ifukube remains a uniquely revered figure in Japanese music, among the nation's most respected and widely recorded (and performed) composers for the concert hall, and also the country's most well known and widely recorded (and re-recorded) film composer.
		He was born on the island of Kushiro in 1914, which was one of the homes of the aboriginal Ainu-- as a boy, Ifukube listened to their music, which greatly influenced his own musical..
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,447084,00.html (568 words)

	The Buddhist Religion, Bibliography
		The book was made into a fine Japanese film, The Burmese Harp.
		One, by Michio Takeyama, The Harp of Burma (Rutland, Vt.: Charles Tuttle, 1968), describes in poignant terms a Japanese soldier who becomes a Theravadin monk in Burma rather than return to Japan at the end of World War II.
		Watanabe, Fumimaro, Philosophy and its Development in the Nikayas and Abhidhamma.
	www.here-and-now.org /buddrel/netbiblio.html (568 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Cinema - The Burmese Harp
		The Burmese Harp is one of Ichikawa's first widely acknowledged films, bolstered by success at The Venice Film Festival.
		A compassionate, anti-war film (yet refusing to enter into any cinematic discussion of where to lay blame), this is one of the first films to portray the decimating effects of the war from the point of view of the Japanese army.
		Of the great masters of Japanese cinema, the work of Kon Ichikawa is probably the least well known in the West.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/burmese-harp.shtml (309 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Kon Ichikawa : Biography
		Perhaps his most humanistic and moving work was his best-known work in the West -- Burmese Harp, which won the San Giorgio Prize at the Venice Film Festival and tells the story of a Japanese soldier in Burma who forsakes repatriation and disguises himself as monk to bury the war dead.
		Kon Ichikawa is considered one of the masters of the immediate postwar generation of Japanese filmmakers -- a generation often overshadowed by the titanic presence of
		Many of Ichikawa's films were reworked from other sources.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/84211/bio.jhtml (762 words)

	Japanese Directors - Kon Ichikawa
		The first Japanese film to stress pacifism, Burmese Harp is remarkable for its pulsating black and white images and its humanist fervor.
		The director was commissioned by the Olympic committee to make a film that would convey the athletic excellence of the event.
		A soldier, part of the retreating Japanese army, is forced to hide in the Philippine jungle, where he finds disease, death and cannibalism.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /foreignvids-jap-ichikawa.html (762 words)

	The Burmese Saung Gauk
		The Burmese harp was used to accompany the human voice in the singing of songs from the Maha Gita.
		The piano is not usually played together with the other chamber music instruments except in performances of modern popular or film music.
		(Sound Example) (251K.) Excerpt of saung performance by U Thein Han.
	research.umbc.edu /efhm/garfias/saung.html (762 words)

	The Burmese Harp
		The film focuses on Mizushima (Shôji Yasui), a soldier known to his comrades for his harp playing, who fails to convince a resistant company to surrender and is presumed dead when a battle destroys their hillside encampment.
		Set against the final days of World War II, The Burmese Harp portrays the experiences of a group of exhausted, war-scarred Japanese soldiers as they prepare to return to Japan.
		Meanwhile, Mizushima's friends mount a search for him, eventually noticing the monk to whom he bears an uncanny resemblance.
	theoscarsite.com /pictures1956/harpburma.htm (762 words)

	The Burmese Harp
		The film takes a more contemplative and pensive tone in describing how war can traumatize its participants.
		Mizushima's particular unit is shown to be concerned for each other and even sensitive.
		One of them, Mizushima, is sent on a mission to inform another unit of the surrender and to convince them to stop fighting.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Bungalow/1204/burmese.htm (762 words)

	World Cinema: Directors -- Kon Ichikawa
		Especially notable are his two powerful antiwar films, The Burmese Harp (1956), in which a soldier experiences a Buddhist spiritual awakening and becomes obsessed with the need to bury the war dead, and Fires on the Plain (1959), which depicts the horrors of war in graphic, chilling terms, showing cannibalism among defeated Japanese soldiers.
		Ichikawa is a highly proficient film craftsman with a keen eye for visual texture.
		He is ameticulous technician who labours long and carefully on every scene in advance of production.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Metro/9384/directors/ichikawa.htm (161 words)

	World Cinema: Directors -- Kon Ichikawa
		Especially notable are his two powerful antiwar films, The Burmese Harp (1956), in which a soldier experiences a Buddhist spiritual awakening and becomes obsessed with the need to bury the war dead, and Fires on the Plain (1959), which depicts the horrors of war in graphic, chilling terms, showing cannibalism among defeated Japanese soldiers.
		Ichikawa is a highly proficient film craftsman with a keen eye for visual texture.
		He is ameticulous technician who labours long and carefully on every scene in advance of production.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Metro/9384/directors/ichikawa.htm (161 words)

	New Books April-June 2001
		BIRUMA NO TATEGOTO [VIDEORECORDING] = THE BURMESE HARP / NIKKATSU KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEISAKU ; PRODUCER, MASAYUKI TAKOKI ; SCREENPLAY, NATTO WADA ; DIRECTOR, KON ICHIKAWA.
		MINBO NO ONNA [VIDEORECORDING] = ANTI-EXTORTION WOMAN / ITAMI FILMS ; PRODUCED BY YASUSHI TAMAOKI ; WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JUZO ITAMI.
		NAGAYA NO SHINSHI ROKU [VIDEORECORDING] = THE RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLEMAN/ SHOCHIKU CO., LTD. ; SCREENPLAY, YASUJIRO OZU & TADAO IKEDA ; DIRECTED BY YASUJIRO OZU.
	www.oberlin.edu /library/colldev/newbooks/jan_mar01/NB-vcr.html (161 words)

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