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.
Genre: Drama, History, War, Music
Cast: Ken Matsudaira, Bruno Ganz, Hiroshi Abe, Jun Kunimura, Oliver Bootz, Kostja Ullmann, Suzuka Ohgo, Shirō Mifune
Crew: Masanobu Deme (Director), Shin'ya Tadano (Editor), Motomu Furuta (Writer), Shinichirô Ikebe (Original Music Composer), Kazutami Hara (Director of Photography)