Jun 17, 2006
135 min
Full-HD

The Ode to Joy (2006)

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.

Category

Drama History War Music

Country

Germany Japan

Companies

Yomiuri Shimbun Company Nippan Group Holdings Shinano Art & Culture Consultant Co., Ltd. TV Asahi Tokyo FM Toei Company

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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