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The Ode to Joy

4.5 135 mins Drama   History   War   Music   2006
Yomiuri Shimbun Company   Nippan Group Holdings   Shinano Art & Culture Consultant Co., Ltd.   TV Asahi   Tokyo FM   Toei Company  
Director(s): Masanobu Deme

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.

Casts of The Ode to Joy

Ken Matsudaira

as Matsue

Bruno Ganz

as Kurt Heinrich

Hiroshi Abe

as Iko

Jun Kunimura

as Takagi

Oliver Bootz

as Carl Baum

Kostja Ullmann

as Herman Lake

Suzuka Ohgo

as Shio

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