In reference to Blood island....I must say the film is one of the best portrayals of men and women at their " Finest Hour". Those Brits do make fine war movies....and thank you (DEA) for sharing that..
My great uncle lofty who I saw quite a few times in the 60s he was on the Burma railway when he came back from the war he weighed six stone he was over 6 foot tall he never got over his experience he never talked about his life as a Japanese prisoner of war wasn’t extremely nice man pleasant but he never got over his treatment
GOD BLESS HIM...SUFFERING IS BROUGHT ON BY CRUEL EVIL...2 THESSOLONIANS 2:9-12...TODAY WE HAVE A ROTTEN ELEMENT IN USA...SNEEKING IN SINCE EARLY 50's...HANG ON FRIENDS...ITS COMING....
A non Hammer Horror Picture. Very well done. I think I saw this movie in 1959, 1960, 1961 or sometime before 1965 on TV when I was a kid. Sure looked familiar to me. Especially going towards the end.
A very well made movie with an excellent cast of vintage character actors lead by Andre Morrel, dealing with a very unusual subject, in the face of such monstrous, but authentic brutality...It was X-rated when first released in the UK. Thanks for sharing.
Apparently when this film came out, it was criticised for making the Japanese looks sadistic. What I've read about them in WWII no film could even come near to showing their sadism.
@@RishayanPorMexico Well, if Japan had not surrendered then it pretty much would have been wiped out. Germany was quite wiped out, and the Eastern part went to the Soviets, so they were nothing. Look at the big mess that had to be cleaned up in East Germany after reunification of Germany? Property ownership, pollution, poor construction, etc. Cost West Germany a fortune. Germany tried to get Mexico to attach USA, but they said "Nah nah nah. We remember what happened 100 years ago".
@@rickyward542 No it wasn't!! Probably saved 100,000 if not hundreds of thousand US and Allies lives, not to mention hundreds of thousands if not a million or more Japanese lives had the US had to continue bombing Japan and make a landing on Japanese soil. It ended the war. Granted I would have invited some Japanese officials with a film camera, to a Pacific Atoll, and have them witness a test detonation of a bomb. Then tell them to surrender or else. That may have prevented the necessity of dropping the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Tojo was a fanatic!!!
@@rickyward542 Obviously you were never in a war, and know nothing about ww2 . Until you are and adult, you should not make comments about a subject you know nothing about.
Carl Mohner (1921 - 2005) who plays Piet van Elst was born in Austria and made more than 40 movies between 1949 and 1976 when he ended his career. Inevitably, he was often cast as a German/Nazi officer in war movies with his most famous role being Ernst Lindemann, captain of the German warship Bismarck in Sink the Bismarck made in 1960. This movie, made in 1958, was unusually graphic for its era and was very successful. The Chairman of the Japanese Motion Pictures Producers' Association wrote to Columbia Pictures which distributed the film asking that it be banned in the USA because he feared what effect it would have on steadily improving Japan/US relations after the war. He was ignored.
@@leebritnell2405 Yes, you are right. He did play that role in the 1974 film with Edward Woodward (1930 - 2009) (of course!) playing Callan. Woodward won the 1970 BAFTA Award for Best Actor for that role.
RM...my dad was with the 200th, then 515th, survived the Oryoku Maru and Camp 18 Fukuoka between Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Our dads had the same experiences before leaving the Philippines to be interred in Japan..until his death the remaining survivors kept somewhat in touch...MY brother does attend faithfully each year the remembrance of the Bataan Death March in NM. Take care and be well. albuquerque
That was some pretty amazing hand grenade throwing, and for some old beat up hand grenades, they sure packed a punch and went off as they hit their targets.
My dad fought in WWII, and had a close friend who was a prisoner of the Japanese. This man's lost half a foot to the cold, not to mention the atrocoties he had to endure daily for over 3 years!
I was told by neighbour, that they sprayed the grass with poison to stop the men eating it, or to kill them IF they did. He kept a small spot in his garden dedicated to all the people he knew who had died. He was a bit bad tempered and rather nutty, but we ALL gave him lee-way for his behaviour, he went through far more than we can even begin to imagine.
I can't even begin to imagine what he went through..... Imagine actually having half your foot removed by the japanese in some dirty pow camp for what could have been easily prevented... My God. God bless your grandfather dude.
Hammer films are like what EC comics was war, horror, crime suspense thriller etc. Both was frown on for being frank and controversial but the readers love it.
My first point I am not aware of any Japanese POW'S that revolted against there captors let alone succeeded. But would be very happy to be corrected. My second point is that the film ignores how General Macarthur's Hubris prevented relief of Japanese POWS between the emperor's rescript and the signing of surrender in Tokyo Bay aboard the Missouri: some two weeks. As a result many POWS were killed by the japanese or by the collapse of law and order especially in Dutch East Indies and French Indochina. Luckily the emperor's restrict resulted in Japanese cantor's abdicating their responsibilities: so eventually inmates began to administer their camps. Other waited for civil administration liaison personnel to take charge of the camps. In Hong Kong the interned colonial civil administration fronted the Japanese and asked to be returned to their posts and so a nearly functioning administration greeted the royal navy aircraft sent to relieve the colony.
Phil Brown was in Obsession with Robert Newton,Michael Gwynne was the bogus lord in first episode of Fawlty Towers and Richard Wordsworth turned into the creeping mass in The Quatermass Experiment.
I remember seeing the coming attractions for this flick at the Rose Theater with my Mom when I was 9 years old. She wouldn't let me see it when it was finally released.
If one reads The Knights of Bushido it highlites very vividly the Japanese brutality and sadism for want of a better word in WW11 in their countries of occupation
Sandakan was a pow camp in borneo with aussie pows A rescue attempt was aborted due to lack of support by americans MacArthur wanted american pows Given first priority!
I had two relatives who worked on the Burnese Railroad and were imprisoned at the notorious Changhai prison camp outside of Singapore. I can't begin to imagine the hardships they endured. The Japanese were obscenely cruel to their prisoners. I found it very hard to deal with Japanese business people in the 1990s and 2000s. It was a taboo topic to them, you couldn't ask anything of them, they'd change the subject. Their National shame in losing WW2 was endemic. Its difficult for me to forgive them even today. America had to drop the bombs otherwise losses wouldve veen staggering and every prisoner would likely have been slaughtered. Its amazing to see how Japan has prospered since WW2 and their younger generation are likely blissfully unaware of the atrocities committed by their grandfathers or great grandfathers. Theyd rather play Pokemon or buy Hello Kitty garbage. Or visit Tokyo Disneyland . The world has moved on, but Japan is still an isolated country in so many ways. Fortunately their Constitution forbids them from having a military.
Many POW cemeteries of the japanese in parts of Asia are cared for, especially in China, Vietnam. In Burma I am not sure what there status. In Japan formal visit by POW associations are discouraged and memorial ceremonies such as playing the last post and reading the ode not permitted. It would good if this state of affairs could be changed. I could be wrong so please correct my comment because it is verydifficulted to get accurate information.
It is amazing how many good WW2 movies there are. I do not ever recall seeing this one. My only complaint is not casting Asian people for the roles of the Japanese
The right wing is the party of low intelligence. They are not interested in facts. trump never succeeded in anything, including having his lackeys hang his Vice President.
Definitely not Japanese. The future Japanese will never know about the atrocities committed by their ancestors because the Japanese politicians do not want future generations to know how inhuman their ancestors were. At least the Germans acknowledge what the Nazis did during WW II. How sad. It is no wonder that Asian nations subjected to Japanese brutality will never forget what happened.
yes, it's impossible to forgive what they did to the POWs; even the germans abided by the geneva convention. all their flower arranging & tea ceremonies hide a cruel nature.
@@j.g.c.2494 Germans didn't abide by GC re Senegalese Tirailleurs. 50 soldiers of the Polish Bydgoszcz National Defence Battalion being shot by the Germans on September 22, 1939.
6ème minute : si c’est un pif de jap...moi, je suis danseuse étoile au Bolchoï...! 39’ 39” : il a une Thompson, le jap ? ! 1h 11’ 48” : il va y avoir de la grenade pour le dessert ? ! Lol !
Nope they sure don't. That Japanese officer at very start of film. I could not figure out what was longest His nose or sword. Longest nose by far, I ever seen on a Japanese. Ever wonder why movies always got couple Japanese with weak eyes wearing glasses? But old days these movies was the norm.
White birch is a northern species, growing in the northern parts of North America, in in Scandinavia and Siberia. Birch wood also rots faster than any other wood if it gets wet. So naturally the Japanese imported these exotic and flimsy trees to south Asia to make fence posts for the camp perimeter. They also decorated the camp with fake palm trees for some unknown reason.
Because this movie was made not too long after the war. You think the Japanese wanted to star in a movie showing them at their worse right after the war.
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japoneses extremamente covardes, e, se tiverem a oportunidade, vão fazer tudo de novo, ( o pau que nasce torto, mesmo que seja queimado, vai permanecer torto).--wilson--niterói--rj--brazil
