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The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war labour camp where the inmates are building the Burma Railway during the last three and a half years of World War II. [3] Captain Ernest Gordon was a company commander with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders who fought in several battles in the Malayan Campaign and the Battle of Singapore before being captured and made a prisoner ...
Toyo's Camera: Japanese American History During WWII: 2009 Junichi Suzuki Unfinished Business: 1985 Steven Okazaki: The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i: 2012 Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i When You're Smiling: The Deadly Legacy of Internment: 1999 Janice D. Tanaka Winter in My Soul: 1986 Bob Nellis, KTWO
The Great Raid, a 2005 war film about the raid at Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II. To End All Wars, a 2001 film set in a Japanese prisoner of war labor camp where the inmates are building the Burma Railway during World War II. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence; My Way, a 2011 South Korean war film based on the story of a Korean ...
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Japanese: 戦場のメリークリスマス, Hepburn: Senjō no Merī Kurisumasu, lit. ' Battlefield's Merry Christmas '), also known as Furyo (Japanese for "prisoner of war"), [3] is a 1983 war film co-written and directed by Nagisa Ōshima, co-written by Paul Mayersberg, and produced by Jeremy Thomas.
On Metacritic, the film received a weighted average score of 48 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [13] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale. [14] The film opened on 11 April 1997 on 9 screens in the United States and Canada and grossed $62,518 for the ...
Baruto no Rakuen (バルトの楽園) or Ode to Joy is a Japanese film released in 2006 and 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.
Return from the River Kwai is a 1989 British film directed by Andrew McLaglen and starring Edward Fox, Chris Penn and Timothy Bottoms. [3] It is not a sequel to The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), though it also deals with POWs of the Japanese in World War II.
Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender to the Allies in a recorded radio address across the Empire on August 15, 1945, marking the end of the Pacific War.Crucially, this news has not reached the Japanese at the "Blood Island" prisoner-of-war camp, where commandant Colonel Yamamitsu, has told senior allied officer Colonel Lambert, he will order the massacre of the entire camp, including a ...