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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
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The film is based on the real-life trial of Japanese soldiers for war crimes committed against Allied prisoners of war on the island of Ambon, in the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), such as the Laha massacre of 1942. The film was the first film debut for both Russell Crowe and Jason Donovan, in minor roles.
The Prisoner of Sakura (Japanese: ソローキンの見た桜, Hepburn: Sorokin no mita saka) (Russian: В плену у сакуры, V plenu u sakury) is a 2019 Japanese war film directed by Masaki Inoue. A joint Japan-Russia co-production, the movie is based on the true story of a prison camp in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, during the Russo ...
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.