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.

• Motomu FurutaWriter
• Shinichiro IkebeOriginal Music Composer
• Masanobu DemeDirector

• Ken MatsudairaMatsue
• Bruno GanzKurt Heinrich
• Hiroshi AbeIko
• Jun KunimuraTakagi
• Oliver BootzCarl Baum
• Kostja UllmannHerman Lake
• Suzuka OhgoShio
• Shirō MifuneCast