The Ode to Joy (2006)
• June 17th, 2006 • 2h 15min
Drama, History, War, Music
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Rashomon
Released on: 1950-08-26
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
The Lives of Others
Released on: 2006-03-23
Drama, Thriller
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...
The Last Samurai
Released on: 2003-12-05
Drama, Action, War
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
Walk the Line
Released on: 2005-09-13
Drama, Music, Romance
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...
All Quiet on the Western Front
Released on: 1930-04-29
Drama, War
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...
The Tin Drum
Released on: 1979-05-02
Drama, History, War
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...
Lost in Translation
Released on: 2003-09-18
Drama, Romance, Comedy
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...
The State I Am In
Released on: 2001-02-01
Drama
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. The...
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Released on: 1974-03-05
Romance, Drama
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...
Zatoichi
Released on: 2003-09-06
Adventure, Drama, Action
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
The Mortal Storm
Released on: 1940-06-20
Drama
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft...
The Hidden Fortress
Released on: 1958-12-28
Drama, Action, Adventure
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Fighting Fred Funston
Released on: 2017-04-01
Documentary, War
On April 18th, 1906, San Francisco witnessed its most devastating natural disaster – an earthquake t...
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
Released on: 2022-06-17
Drama, History
In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...
Ask This of Rikyu
Released on: 2013-09-01
Drama, History, Romance
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...
Raia Prays For…
Released on: 2015-06-13
Drama
Goro is an archeologist, fascinated with the national treasure Gassho clay figure and remains from t...
The Cardinal
Released on: 1963-12-12
Drama, History, War
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...
The Big Parade
Released on: 1925-11-05
Romance, War, Drama
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to figh...
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6
Released on: 1969-11-28
Drama, Action, Crime
This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series