Top Cast
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Ken Matsudaira
Matsue
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Bruno Ganz
Kurt Heinrich
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Hiroshi Abe
Iko
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Jun Kunimura
Takagi
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Oliver Bootz
Carl Baum
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Kostja Ullmann
Herman Lake
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Suzuka Ohgo
Shio
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Shirō Mifune
Overview
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.
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