The Railway Man (2013)

Directors

Jonathan Teplitzky

Cast

Jeremy Irvine, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Michael MacKenzie, Tanroh Ishida, Bryan Probets, Tom Hobbs, Sam Reid, Akos Armont, Ben Aldridge, Yutaka Izumihara, Peter Tuinstra, Masa Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ewen Leslie, Therese Bradley

The story

During the Second World War, Eric Lomax is a British officer who is captured by the Japanese in Singapore and sent to a Japanese POW camp, where he is forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway north of the Malay Peninsula. During his time in the camp as one of the Far East prisoners of war, Lomax is tortured by the Kempeitai (military secret police) for building a radio receiver from spare parts. The torture depicted includes beatings, food deprivation and waterboarding.

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