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.
Unfortunately the movie The Ode to Joy is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Masanobu Deme | Director |
| Editing | Shin'ya Tadano | Editor |
| Writing | Motomu Furuta | Writer |
| Sound | Shinichirô Ikebe | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Kazutami Hara | Director of Photography |
| Art | Yoshinobu Nishioka | Art Direction |
