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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 ...
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 ...
Reviewing the film in their 1959 book The Japanese Film – Art & Industry, Donald Richie and Joseph L. Anderson found the presentation of the imprisoned soldiers as innocents and of the war trials as unjust debatable, but acknowledged that it was one of the few Japanese motion pictures at the time which brought up the question of ...
During World War II, many women became prisoners of war and faced a twenty to fifty percent death rate in Japanese prison camps. However, many women prisoners of war stories have been overlooked, except the women POWs of Sumatra. Thousands of British and Dutch colonists made the East Indies their home.
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.
Jun-shik and Tatsuo are captured and, by February 1940, are held in Kungursk prisoner-of-war camp north of Perm, Soviet Union, where both Koreans and Japanese are incarcerated together. Jong-dae, under the name of "Anton", has become a pro-Soviet work-unit leader who helps his fellow Koreans and abuses the Japanese prisoners.
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.
The Camp on Blood Island is a 1958 British World War II film, directed by Val Guest for Hammer Film Productions and starring André Morell, Carl Möhner, Edward Underdown and Walter Fitzgerald. The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Japanese-occupied British Malaya and deals with the brutal, sadistic treatment of Allied prisoners ...