Francois Truffaut on Kon Ichikawa’s ‘The Burmese Harp’ (1956): “It’s a curious film which pleased some members of the Venice Festival jury enough last year that they came close to awarding it the Golden Lion. The sincerity of the enterprise is somewhat dubious. In any case, it is always hard to know where one stands about Japanese films…" The full text is available for our subscribers | History of Cinema