

02/09/2001
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.

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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