Blood Oath (Prisoners of the Sun) (1990)
Bryan Brown, Deborah Kara Unger, George Takei
The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. Capt. Cooper is the chief prosecutor. In a mass grave, the bodies of 300 executed servicemen have been unearthed. Cooper... (read more) The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. Capt. Cooper is the chief prosecutor. In a mass grave, the bodies of 300 executed servicemen have been unearthed. Cooper assumes that the massacre was ordered by Baron Takahashi, Japanese commander on Ambon. But the one potential witness has gone mad and is due to be shipped back to Australia. No captured airmen were found alive on the island at all, not even the four-man crew of a reconnaissance plane shot down late in the War. Takahashi is returned to the island in the custody of an American officer, Maj. Beckett. But there is little evidence with which to prosecute the Baron. Cooper thinks he could make a case for the missing airmen if only their bodies could be located. And why does Maj. Beckett appear interested in not seeing Takahashi convicted? Cooper gets a break when Lt. Tanaka, a communications officer and a Christian, surrenders himself...
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R, 108 min.
Directed by:
Stephen Wallace
Release Date: Jul 26, 1990
DVD Release Date: Oct 05, 2004
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Well, I came into this movie not expecting to enjoy it at all, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by it. The acting nod goes to Bryan Brown for doing a great job portraying a captain-turned-lawyer prosecuting all the japanese soldiers who ran a ... (read more) Well, I came into this movie not expecting to enjoy it at all, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by it. The acting nod goes to Bryan Brown for doing a great job portraying a captain-turned-lawyer prosecuting all the japanese soldiers who ran a prison camp and were terrible at speaking English. The funny thing about this movie was that on the cover of the DVD, it made it seem like Russel Crowe was the star because his name was huge and bigger than Bryan Brown's and even George Takei's. This was very misleading because he only had maybe 7 or 8 lines in the whole movie. Then I realized that it was only a ploy to make people want to buy the DVD. I also hated the ending of the film. It was way too sudden and I really didn't enjoy it at all. Not a must-see, but its fairly decent.
Well done. This movie has been well made and the acting is top notch. While depressing and heavy at times, overall, this movie is highly recommended.
great film telling another true story and also starring a very young russel crowe bryan brown is superb in it as the prosecuter trying to convict the jap of war crimes and at logger heads with yank policy in the pacific
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