A Yank I had the honor to live and work in Australia (awesome country and people) for over a year working between Sydney and Brisbane. We were near Cowra...but had no idea of its place in history. When we go back, my lady and I will check it out and pay our respects. Thank you for posting.
I agree, the Cowra Breakout is quite good, so is the Riddle of the Stinson but decides from that there are no good classic movies/miniseries I can recall.
My all time favourite Australian mini-series, made at the height of the country's golden era of film and television production. Alan David Lee and all the cast were excellent but the amazingly talented team of Japanese actors deserves special mention. I'd love to know what kind of reception it got when it was shown in Japan.
Excellent account of the horrors of war and it's far reaching devastation. It's difficult to humanize such a barbaric situation but this telling did a very good job.
First ty for posting …i just watched all three parts of this and I enjoyed it very much ,my father served during WW2 in the US Army 574th signal air warning battalion Co.C he was in New Guinea and fought with the aussies …and the beginning where POW’s were arriving and eventually left for their home again on a ship ,i could think of a few stories my dad had told me one was of when he stood guard duty with a Aussie soldier on a cargo ship standing guard over Japanese POWs air raids were almost daily and one such happened as they were watching them as the story goes my dad said to the pows if one bomb falls near this ship you will all get it my dad and this soldier drew their bolts back and waited he spoke of the rain he had malaria i just want to say may all of our soldiers rest in peace they did so much for all of us ….my father was also stationed at one point in Brisbane before go to NG…thanks again for the post
Thank you for putting this up, I am kind of saddened that so few people have taken the time to watch. Australia seems to put out some pretty good period mini series, like Operation Buffalo on Maralinga
It's not often you see an excellent movie I'm sure glad they came out with this one. I'm gonna watch it again and it was for freeIt's not often you see an excellent movie. I'm sure glad they came out with this one. I'm gonna watch it again and it was for free.
Love this movie my father did National service early 1952 he was issued with the lee Enfield 303 rifle he was also a bren gunner ! Hes still alive @90 years of age ! Me raaf pilot before f18 hornet flew the Mirage 3 was accurate with the 30mm cannons!!
I enjoyed this series. Looking back with sympathy on the Japanese jars with me as my Father fought at Buna, Gona and Sanandana. Dad had no sympathy for the Japanese and saw the atrocities they committed. As with most he served with, they never forgave the Japanese and this was often a real hatred. Often, Japanese prisoners were treated with reasonable compassion but the same can never be said of Allies held in Japanese POW camps, where the treatment was cruel and barbaric. It is often portrayed as just Japanese culture, but to those who fought and died trying to stop the Japanese, they have no such illusions.
It used to be part of Japanese culture, just as the "fair go" used to be part of Australian culture at national level. Both the Germans and the Japanese had ambitious plans of conquest, and tempered their efforts in the extreme to pull off what really amounted to the impossible, assuming as it did that the enemy was weak and lacked resolve. That barbarity was supposed to deliver the goods where being nice wouldn't have done the job. They learned otherwise.
Brit here, my old man was the same,he was never in the Far East,but he came from Devonport. He was in the Navy and had a lot of school chums in Singapore and on The Rodney and Renown, He would not buy a Jap car,even in retirement he bought a Ford.
Very well made series. Whilst some license with facts such as the Officer killed at the end was actually unarmed and was from a training camp and not the prison camp as depicted.
Yes, some artistic licensing with McDonald playing a form of Lt Doncaster, the training officer in a dim light. However they did get the situation right- 2 young diggers accompanying Doncaster ran away, leaving him to his fate.. that was from official documents I read awhile back.
I saw this on TV before so i know theres one scene missing, a scene where Junji and his pal are building a Japanese garden then Shimoiyama comes along and says why are you building this garden theres no sense in that?and Junji replies with a very thought provoking answer"I thought a Soldier respects beauty"to which Shimoiyama replies"Truly"...
Thanks to John Howard. He killed it off, just as Peter Dutton plans to finish what Howard started to be rid of anything cultural about Australia. The Aussies just sat back and watched. Many of them applauded.
Una grata sorpresa toparme con este filme del género bélico con tan aleccionador mensaje antibelicista al final del mismo. Por recrearse el sentido del honor y del sacrificio extremo que los japoneses hacían honor hasta en el cautiverio. Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.
It is the duty of every soldier, regardless of their country of origin, that, they attempt to escape their captors at every opportunity. However, very sad when the hate continues on both sides when soldiers become non-combatants in POW encampments. Seems no one respects any wartime law in place, not even the "Geneva Convention!" or the UN Charter of Human Rights, of which Australia has been a signatory since the end of the 1st World War. Take care good people.
Remarkable story. It show loyalty to king and country and strict code of military conduct. Never lose yr honour or die trying to be one. Honour is man's ultimate religion. The same honour that Jesus shows to mankind.
Complete tragedy that even one Australian was murdered. I wonder how many atrocities those Japanese had committed before they were captured and sent to the Pow camp. God knows how many rapes and torturous murders they would have committed if the had not been recaptured.
It's what happens when cultures collide. Events that shouln't happen, do. Events that should happen, don't. At the end of the day evil begets evil, and good is left wanting.
No the Japanese never did apologize to any nation for the hundred of thousands of rapes tortured horrific medical experiments murdered and their favorite...torture
I come to this slightly late but I researched the real Major Horden (a certain Major Ramsay) He was found to be properly operating the camp and abiding by the Geneva Convention. Although somewhat exonerated, he took his resignation in October 1944. In the end, was it really his fault?
Great series the Japanese deserved what they were given after what they afflicted on our serviceman!! I still dont trust these people to this day! My neighbor was In the7th division!!!
G'day mate, when seen this title, I thought it was the ather movie with same name,it turned out better than the regional one way back. Had not seen this one before bloody top movie. Why can't we make good Aussie any more, not Hollywood spin-offs 🤔🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘
A Yank I had the honor to live and work in Australia (awesome country and people) for over a year working between Sydney and Brisbane. We were near Cowra...but had no idea of its place in history. When we go back, my lady and I will check it out and pay our respects. Thank you for posting.
Thank you for putting this up. It's a shame we don't make good movies anymore in this country
I agree, the Cowra Breakout is quite good, so is the Riddle of the Stinson but decides from that there are no good classic movies/miniseries I can recall.
@@tankengine8889 Bangkok Hilton 1989, The Dirtwater Dynasty 1988, Against the wind 1978 are a few really good ones.
I remember watching this back in the 80's, what a series. 👍👍👍
What a brilliant series in my opinion 1 of the best
One of the best movies I've watched. Heart touching ♥️
My all time favourite Australian mini-series, made at the height of the country's golden era of film and television production. Alan David Lee and all the cast were excellent but the amazingly talented team of Japanese actors deserves special mention. I'd love to know what kind of reception it got when it was shown in Japan.
Excellent account of the horrors of war and it's far reaching devastation. It's difficult to humanize such a barbaric situation but this telling did a very good job.
Thanks for the upload. USMC Vietnam Vet here.....
First ty for posting …i just watched all three parts of this and I enjoyed it very much ,my father served during WW2 in the US Army 574th signal air warning battalion Co.C he was in New Guinea and fought with the aussies …and the beginning where POW’s were arriving and eventually left for their home again on a ship ,i could think of a few stories my dad had told me one was of when he stood guard duty with a Aussie soldier on a cargo ship standing guard over Japanese POWs air raids were almost daily and one such happened as they were watching them as the story goes my dad said to the pows if one bomb falls near this ship you will all get it my dad and this soldier drew their bolts back and waited he spoke of the rain he had malaria i just want to say may all of our soldiers rest in peace they did so much for all of us ….my father was also stationed at one point in Brisbane before go to NG…thanks again for the post
Thank you for putting this up, I am kind of saddened that so few people have taken the time to watch. Australia seems to put out some pretty good period mini series, like Operation Buffalo on Maralinga
All good mate. Australia has made many good shows and movies from the 80s roughly, but that's just my opinion.
This is exactly why P.O.W. Camps are usually put on very small & remote islands.
Not in the US or Canada.
It's not often you see an excellent movie I'm sure glad they came out with this one. I'm gonna watch it again and it was for freeIt's not often you see an excellent movie. I'm sure glad they came out with this one. I'm gonna watch it again and it was for free.
Quite a few twists and turns in this didn’t see those coming
Been searching this series for long time I watched it years ago on tele great insight to a time of events we only heard of
A very thaughtfull and touching film thanks for uploading. :}
Love this movie my father did National service early 1952 he was issued with the lee Enfield 303 rifle he was also a bren gunner ! Hes still alive @90 years of age ! Me raaf pilot before f18 hornet flew the Mirage 3 was accurate with the 30mm cannons!!
My pop was a guard at Cowra, so proud of him.🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Great show
Good on yeah mate. Good to see again.
Great movie
Wow! AWESOME MOVIE!
Going by my father my uncle was in that training camp they mentioned. It was him and he's offsider that brought in the last excapees.
Excellent movie.
Thanks for posting
I enjoyed this series. Looking back with sympathy on the Japanese jars with me as my Father fought at Buna, Gona and Sanandana. Dad had no sympathy for the Japanese and saw the atrocities they committed. As with most he served with, they never forgave the Japanese and this was often a real hatred. Often, Japanese prisoners were treated with reasonable compassion but the same can never be said of Allies held in Japanese POW camps, where the treatment was cruel and barbaric. It is often portrayed as just Japanese culture, but to those who fought and died trying to stop the Japanese, they have no such illusions.
It used to be part of Japanese culture, just as the "fair go" used to be part of Australian culture at national level. Both the Germans and the Japanese had ambitious plans of conquest, and tempered their efforts in the extreme to pull off what really amounted to the impossible, assuming as it did that the enemy was weak and lacked resolve. That barbarity was supposed to deliver the goods where being nice wouldn't have done the job. They learned otherwise.
Brit here, my old man was the same,he was never in the Far East,but he came from Devonport.
He was in the Navy and had a lot of school chums in Singapore and on The Rodney and Renown,
He would not buy a Jap car,even in retirement he bought a Ford.
The British were treated better in the German POW camps than the despicable Japanese POW camps very much sadistic regime
Thank you.
Very well made series.
Whilst some license with facts such as the Officer killed at the end was actually unarmed and was from a training camp and not the prison camp as depicted.
Yes, some artistic licensing with McDonald playing a form of Lt Doncaster, the training officer in a dim light.
However they did get the situation right- 2 young diggers accompanying Doncaster ran away, leaving him to his fate.. that was from official documents I read awhile back.
Excellent film.
They don't make movies like this any more!!
Good series
Yeah wow! Know the story first screen play👏🌹😘
Excelent movie!!!
I saw this on TV before so i know theres one scene missing, a scene where Junji and his pal are building a Japanese garden then Shimoiyama comes along and says why are you building this garden theres no sense in that?and Junji replies with a very thought provoking answer"I thought a Soldier respects beauty"to which Shimoiyama replies"Truly"...
Excellent!
try to find Bill Smith in the Tokyo phone book!
Excellent production.
Australian film is virtually non existent nowadays.
Thanks to John Howard. He killed it off, just as Peter Dutton plans to finish what Howard started to be rid of anything cultural about Australia. The Aussies just sat back and watched. Many of them applauded.
Damn Shame, Aussie's made some great stuff,heartbreaking to think you,ve gone the same way as us Brits !
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And for the same reasons. Lack of testicular fortitude and moral sense.
Una grata sorpresa toparme con este filme del género bélico con tan aleccionador mensaje antibelicista al final del mismo. Por recrearse el sentido del honor y del sacrificio extremo que los japoneses hacían honor hasta en el cautiverio.
Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.
Thanks for posting. But where can i watch the New Guinea part of the story?
Not too sure where you can anymore. Sorry!
@@tankengine8889 Thanks mate. I'll keep looking. It was the basis of the Stan and Lieutenant story.
@@Kingmick58 indeed it was, it had his story in new guinea, and his enlistment into the 22nd Garrison Battalion. I recall watching it before.
If your there, uploading the New Guinea part now.
@@tankengine8889 Yeah baby!
Jyunichi Isida good acter
My father told me the local farmers were shooting them.
Stan in post WW2 battle dress and an Officers cap as a CPL??
Yeah, I saw that.. the Officers Cap was used by Other Ranks sometimes, but the Battledress was indeed post WW2. As they say "don't ask"
THIS IS PART THREE
It was a honourable if futile attempt to escape.
More like misguided and futile attempt but that was the way of the Bushito. Death before dishonor.
I guess the prisoners just didn't know their limitations.
Very good film..with the same recurring stupidity..Today, it's Ukrainians turn..⁉️
Allenn David Lee was born in Kenya. So was i! A very handsome manm
I’m actually from cowra
It is the duty of every soldier, regardless of their country of origin, that, they attempt to escape their captors at every opportunity. However, very sad when the hate continues on both sides when soldiers become non-combatants in POW encampments. Seems no one respects any wartime law in place, not even the "Geneva Convention!" or the UN Charter of Human Rights, of which Australia has been a signatory since the end of the 1st World War. Take care good people.
Remarkable story. It show loyalty to king and country and strict code of military conduct. Never lose yr honour or die trying to be one. Honour is man's ultimate religion. The same honour that Jesus shows to mankind.
Horrors of war
Complete tragedy that even one Australian was murdered. I wonder how many atrocities those Japanese had committed before they were captured and sent to the Pow camp. God knows how many rapes and torturous murders they would have committed if the had not been recaptured.
Have we learned nothing?
Action begins when he sounds the bugle: 44:05
It's what happens when cultures collide. Events that shouln't happen, do. Events that should happen, don't. At the end of the day evil begets evil, and good is left wanting.
I think so too would it all be averted if people just took the trouble to talk to each other and get to know each other😢
SUBTITRARE IN LIMBA ROMANA
They have never apologized for what they did to the POW'S.
No the Japanese never did apologize to any nation for the hundred of thousands of rapes tortured horrific medical experiments murdered and their favorite...torture
The camp commander should have been charged after the fact....
I come to this slightly late but I researched the real Major Horden (a certain Major Ramsay)
He was found to be properly operating the camp and abiding by the Geneva Convention. Although somewhat exonerated, he took his resignation in October 1944.
In the end, was it really his fault?
Because cowra camp of the Japan how died in the war 🫡🫡
5⭐️
Sobering gives a respect to their doctrines
bool chit
Amazing truly amazing.
Great series the Japanese deserved what they were given after what they afflicted on our serviceman!! I still dont trust these people to this day! My neighbor was In the7th division!!!
Ah, a good ol' Aussie bigot. Well done.
@@barefootbooks69 The japanese are more bigot than you think.
@@JL-tm3rc I made no comment on whether the Japanese were bigoted or not.
@@barefootbooks69 i agree
I agree but why are you writing neighbor not neighbour which is the proper English way .
Excelente. MY Lord. NOT Hollywood Anti Christian CRAP
First scene, two 'diggers' doing shit drill and the 'CPL' wearing the wrong hat. FFS
They're doing better drill than my Cadet Unit on a good day!
But yes, the cap is wrong.. But I recall drivers of any rank wore those peaked caps..
Shit story
G'day mate, when seen this title, I thought it was the ather movie with same name,it turned out better than the regional one way back. Had not seen this one before bloody top movie. Why can't we make good Aussie any more, not Hollywood spin-offs 🤔🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘