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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 ...
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.
Baruto no Gakuen (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.
Prisoners and Patriots: The Untold Story of Japanese Internment in Santa Fe: 2011 Neil H. Simon Rabbit in the Moon: 1999 Emiko Omori Relocation, Arkansas [citation needed] 2015 Vivienne Schiffer Remembering Manzanar: 2004 National Park Service: Rescued By Fate: 2014 Christopher HK Lee Return to the Valley: Japanese American Experience After ...
Blood Oath, known in some countries as Prisoners of the Sun, is a 1990 Australian drama film directed by Stephen Wallace and co-written by Denis Whitburn and Brian A. Williams. The film stars Bryan Brown , George Takei , Terry O'Quinn , John Bach , John Clarke , Deborah Kara Unger , Russell Crowe , John Polson , Nicholas Eadie , David Argue and ...
A group of former Japanese World War II soldiers, interned in Sugamo Prison as Class B and C war criminals, memorise their past.Yamashita had shot an Indonesian civilian by command of his superior Hamada and, after violent interrogations by U.S. military personnel following his arrest, was blamed by Hamada for acting without instructions at his trial.
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 ...
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 ...