Judah Ben-Hur realising that forgiveness is more important than revenge. Esther becomes his wife and the mother of his children. Five years after the chariot race, Judah learns from Iras that she killed Messala. In approximately AD 64 (being the tenth year of Nero's reign), Judah finds out about the suffering of their fellow Christians. He gives his fortune to help construct the Catacomb of Callixtus and an underground church within the catacombs. In the Ben-Hur was portrayed by Ramon Novarro. In the 1959 film directed by William Wyler, Ben-Hur was played by Charlton Heston who won the Academy Award for Best
The Burmese Harp (1956 film) audience of 3.87 million people, then the second largest Japanese box office hit. The Burmese Harp (1956 film) The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 1956. In 1985, Ichikawa remade "The Burmese Harp" in color with a new cast, and the remake was a major box office success, becoming the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1985 and the second largest Japanese box office hit up to that time. Private Mizushima, a Japanese soldier, becomes the harp (or "saung") player of Captain Inouye's group, composed of soldiers who fight and