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    Blood Oath (1990)

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    Shortly after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour in World War II, Japanese troops captured the Australian garrison on the little-known Dutch East Indies island of Ambon, 650 km north-west of Darwin.

    The Japanese established a Prisoner of War camp there which would be the scene of atrocities and genocide. Six hundred Australians entered Ambon Island POW camp; three years later, one hundred and twenty were barely left alive.

    After the war, the Australian Army held a war crimes trial on the island. Blood Oath is the story of that incredible trial, which herded together the 91 Japanese officers and men who had controlled and run the POW camp.

    Bryan Brown plays the prosecuting Australian Army lawyer, Captain Robert Cooper – based on a real-life Australian military lawyer named Captain John Williams, who tried the Japanese at Ambon, and whose son, Brian, wrote the initial script for the film.

    40% of the film is set in the courtroom. The courtroom itself was a reconstruction inside the Warner Studios in Queensland (Australia), built from old photographs from Captain Williams’ files.

    Baron Takahashi (George Takei) was the commander of the camp but washes his hands of the trial, considering himself above it all. He is an aristocrat and a dilettante and affects the fashionable aspect of being an English gentleman who loves medals and costumes more than the military.

    This is not a film for the faint of heart. The storyline (often presented in flashback) is tense and intense, and the final scenes leave us with much to ponder. It’s a wrenching portrait of a terrible time in our history.

    Released in some markets as Prisoners Of The Sun.

    Captain Robert Cooper
    Bryan Brown
    Vice-Admiral Baron Takahashi
    George Takei
    Major Beckett
    Terry O’Quinn
    Major Roberts
    John Bach
    Lt. Hideo Tanaka
    Toshi Shioya
    Sheedy
    John Clarke
    Sister Littell
    Deborah Unger
    Private Jimmy Fenton
    John Polson
    Lt. Corbett
    Russell Crowe
    Sgt. Keenan
    Nicholas Eadie
    Private Jim Talbot
    Jason Donovan
    Captain Ikeuchi
    Tetsu Watanabe
    Mr Matsugae
    Sôkyû Fujita
    President of the Bench
    Ray Barrett
    Lt. Noburo Kamura
    Kazuhiro Muroyama

    Director
    Stephen Wallace

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