Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
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Ciarán McMenamin as Capt. Ernest Gordon
Robert Carlyle as Major Ian Campbell
Kiefer Sutherland as Lt. Jim 'Yanker' Reardon
Mark Strong as Dusty Miller
Yugo Saso as Takashi Nagase
Sakae Kimura as Sgt. Ito
James Cosmo as Col. Stuart McLean
Masayuki Yui as Captain Noguchi
John Gregg as Camp Doctor Coates
Shû Nakajima as Nagatomo
Pip Torrens as Lt. Foxworth
James McCarthy as Norman
Brendan Cowell as Pte. Wallace Hamilton
Adam Sinclair as Jocko
Winton Nicholson as Duncan
Greg Ellis as Sgt. Roger Primrose
Robert Jobe as Lars
Jonathan Chapman as Server
Duff Armour as Jan
Jeremy Pippin as Young Dutch Soldier
Christopher Gyre as Cockney
Sergio Jones as Irishman
Kelli Walchek as Scottish Mother
Jonathan Chapman as Captain Paratrooper
Richard Joseph Lafond Jr. as American Soldier
Ben Huddleston as Young Scot
Daryl Bonilla as POW
Clyde Yamashita as Japanese NCO
Joji Yoshida as Guard #1
Koji Haga as Guard #2
Ernest Gordon as Self (uncredited)
Masa Kanome as Soldier (uncredited)
Nick Meaney as (uncredited)
Takashi Nagase as Self (uncredited)
Teddy Sears as Paratrooper (uncredited)
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