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.
Director: Masanobu Deme
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Ken Matsudaira as Matsue |
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Bruno Ganz as Kurt Heinrich |
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Hiroshi Abe as Iko |
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Jun Kunimura as Takagi |
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Oliver Bootz as Carl Baum |
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Kostja Ullmann as Herman Lake |
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Suzuka Ohgo as Shio |
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Shirō Mifune as |
| Camera | Kazutami Hara | Director of Photography |
| Art | Yoshinobu Nishioka | Art Direction |
| Sound | Shinichiro Ikebe | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Masanobu Deme | Director |
| Writing | Motomu Furuta | Writer |
| Editing | Shin'ya Tadano | Editor |
| Production | Yusuke Okada | Executive Producer |
| Production | Yasuhiro Fukuoka | Casting |