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[bomb explosion]

[soldiers shrieking]

[gunshots firing]

[gunshots firing]

[bomb explosion]

[soldiers shrieking]

[bomb explosion]

[engine revving]

[airplane engine revving]

[cup bumping]

- Morning, sir.

- Well, chaps, we're implementing Operation Exit.

- [Unintelligible]

- Wouldn't wanna get much worse.

Now, we're establishing an escape route.

There are a lot of people

who must be siphoned out of Singapore.

Communications experts, technicians,

senior civil servants.

- Go through Sumatra, sir?

- Yes.

Now, Captain Lyon,

you'll be based here at Pulau Durian.

You'll move them on the Indragiri River, here.

You, Captain Davis, will be located there,

and move them on to Ringgit,

for evacuation to Salam.

- Right, Sir.

- I'll be at Ringgit. - And when do we leave, sir?

- Well, now.

- Now, sir?

- Yes, I'm afraid so.

There's a boat waiting for you at Kaliaki.

- Very good, sir.

[dramatic music]

[boat engine revving]

[dramatic music]

- Which one of your blokes is Gordon Highlanders?

- [Gordon] Yes.

[boat engine revving]

- You're Captain Lyon?

- Yes.

- Reynolds.

You are the one I dropped at Pulau Durian?

- That's correct, yeah.

[boat engine revving]

Where'd you pick up this old scowl?

- Navy commandeered her.

She was a Jap fishing boat.

Bottom full of worm,

engine run by a treadmill of white mice.

- But beautifully nondescript.

- With any sort of luck mate,

she'll get you where you're going.

- And maybe back again?

- Why would you bother?

You'll have the dickens in Singapore.

Doubt it'll see the week out.

[birds chirping]

[car engine revving]

You speak English?

Yes.

Why does he not come himself?

He's sick, very sick.Please help him. Please!

- Well, there she is Digger,

the house on the hill.

- Excuse me.

- Right on, fellas.

This way.

[dramatic music]

[horn blowing]

[suspense music]

[boat engine revving]

[dramatic music]

- The Krait?

- Krait! It's an Indian name for a snake.

Now, what do you think of her?

- She's a tub, a 100% first class bloody tub.

- That is exactly what we need.

- Captain Lyon.

- Major. [points at rank] Did you have a good trip, Bill?

- Depends on your point of view.

We returned on a bloody ramp pathway,

We would never have got here

if it wasn't for my engineer.

[door thudding]

Come up here and meet the new owners.

[waves crashing]

- If you're the new owner, sir, you have my sympathy.

- I'll leave you with a Lieutenant Carse, Bill,

hand over command or whatever it is you Navy types do.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- When are you gonna tell me where you want me

to take this thing?

- Well, she used to work out of Singapore, Ted.

That's why she's so valuable to us.

[dramatic music]

- There's an absolute training maximum, 15 hours.

[door thuds]

- Come in.

- How are you?

- Well, thanks.

- I'm Major Ivan Lyon,

this is Don Davis and my two IC, Royal Navy.

- Bob Page.

- Welcome aboard, do sit down.

- Thank you, sir.

- Why did you volunteer for Z, Bob?

- I thought it was about time I did something positive.

That's partly the reason.

- And your father is Deputy Administrator of New Guinea,

is that correct?

- That's the other part.

He's a prisoner of the Japs.

- So is Major Lyon's wife.

- I also see he was a soldier, highly decorated.

- Five times, sir.

- Don't try to outdo him, will you?

- Hardly.

- We're not looking for any heroes around here.

- I'm not the type, sir.

- Good.

Right, let's put you in the picture.

[dramatic music]

[boat engine revving]

Everyone forward.

[dramatic music]

Hi.

I'm sorry I couldn't tell you where we're going to til now,

but there were the usual security reasons

that I'm sure you'll all appreciate.

The fact is we're on our way to Singapore.

- You beauty!

What'd I tell you?

[soldiers chattering]

- Now, we're going in as close as we can with the Krait.

Establish a base on one of the islands

at the top of the Riau Archipelago.

We'll send the canoe teams in from there,

and attach limpet mines

to enemy ships in Singapore Harbor.

[soldiers laughing]

- Bloody Jap ship mate.

- Now, we have a Japanese boat,

and we're flying the Japanese flag.

That's our best chance of escaping detection

in the weeks ahead.

So it is not strictly by the book, but there we are.

Now, I make this point,

because I want you all to be aware that if we are captured,

there is every possibility that we'll be executed as spies.

And we also start looking like what we're supposed to be.

- Japanese?

- Malays.

- Bob, top side!

[soldiers laughing]

- You'll do me, Bob.

You don't look Malay to me,

he looks more like a Bangkok whore.

[soldiers chattering]

[dramatic music]

[boat engine revving]

- This is our 40th day since we left Australia.

I don't like running in this close.

- Not to worry, Ted,

I've been to these parts before.

- On foot, no doubt.

- No, I had a yawn in Singapore before the war.

I spent my honeymoon down here.

- Honeymoon?

- Right where we are now, in fact.

She drew about the same.

I got through then, we'll get through now.

- Bit better company than this trip.

- Certainly better looking.

[boat engine revving]

Look boys, no noise.

Good work, Paddy.

- [Captain Lyon] It's on, Page.

- [Page] Done!

- We'll be reaching Penang Island in two hours time,

and we'll make it our base.

We drop the canoes in as soon as it gets dark.

- So it'll give us something to tell the kids, eh, Bob?

- Well, I just hope we can pull it off.

Keep your fingers crossed

the Japs aren't too lively around that harbor.

- Yeah.

I wonder what the little buggers are up to right now.

[singing foreign music]

[horn blowing]

- Looks like they never heard about blackouts.

- Yes.

- Well, best of British flood lights.

- Now take care, chaps.

[ship hooting]

[metal clanks]

[waves crashing]

[bell ringing]

[waves crashing]

[singing foreign music]

[man coughs]

[bombs explode]

[people shrieking]

[bomb explodes]

[bell ringing]

[alarm rings]

- [speaks in foreign language]

[bombs explode]

[soldiers cheering]

[soldiers chattering]

- [Soldier One] Congratulations, lad.

You pulled it off.

[soldiers chattering]

[suspenseful music]

- [News Reporter] In the early hours of the morning,

a series of explosions in Singapore resulted in the sinking

of seven Japanese military cargo vessels.

The attackers caused great loss of faith

for the Shonan authorities,

who have shown themselves vulnerable

to this type of sabotage.

This is "The spirit of resistance of Malaya,"

signing off for today.

- What do you think of it, Don?

- It's a bit more sea worthy than the Krait.

- It won't be quite the same though, will it?

No more sarongs or blacking up?

- Oh, there will be later.

- Ivan, I'm no pessimist,

but I would prefer that it wasn't Singapore again.

I think we're pushing our luck.

- Not necessarily.

According to our intelligence,

the Japanese think the last raid was conceived

by our men in Changi Prison

and carried out by local guerillas.

- Well, they have no idea it was us?

- Not the slightest.

[laughs softly]

That's why I wanna make it Singapore again.

That's where we can hit them the hardest.

- Well, you know me, Ivan,

where you go, I go.

Alright, gather around, chaps.

- Quiet!

Quiet!

Come on, keep it down!

- I'm sorry, sir.

I'd like to extend a welcome to the new members

for the next operation, code named Rimau.

And a special thanks to the old hands

from the Krait, who've come in for another go.

[soldiers cheer]

Now, you all know each other,

but I don't think you've met this gentleman.

This is Major Otto Ingleton from the Royal Marines.

Now, he's acting as an observer

for Southeast Asia Command.

And he'll be coming with us to see how it's all done.

- Well, I'll try to keep out of your way.

And I don't mind being called a Pommy,

so long as it's not that Pommy bastard.

- Okay.

[soldiers chattering]

- For the success of Operation Rimau,

down the hatch.

- [Soldiers] Cheers.

[soldiers chattering]

- Pleased you could make it, Bob.

- Well, I couldn't let you fellows

go wandering off on your own. You'd get lost, Pop.

- Thanks for coming, Bob.

- Well, there's a job to be done, Ivan.

- There's some great new toys to do it with too.

One man subs,

that were designed at Special Operations in England.

They have a range of 35 miles,

can cruise down to a depth of about five fathoms.

And can get along about four knots.

They're battery powered,

and the operator wears oxygen gear.

We call them SBs, Submersible Boats.

The Japs won't know what's hit them.

[man whistles]

Departed Freemantle 1225 hours,

West Australian Standard Time, 11th of September.

Proceeding north through Lombok Strait

to Singapore area,

with group known as Rimau, Malay for tiger,

under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Lyon,

and comprising 22 officers and other ranks,

of Z Special Force.

We'll unload five tons of store on Merapas Island.

and establish rear base for party,

before proceeding on to Singapore waters.

[dramatic music]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[dramatic music]

- What about this, Colonel?

- It's a 50- or 60-tonner.

Come and look at this, Don.

- [Don] Yes, I like it.

And she's obviously not carrying any cargo.

- It's better.

- Yeah.

- Let's get in a little closer.

Helmsman, 20 degrees to port.

- Port 20 we're on, sir.

[people chattering]

[people chattering and laughing]

[man shrieking]

[men shrieking]

[men speaking in foreign language]

[water swooshing]

Come on, tie it off.

This is the life...'eh, Bob?

Better off than those poor bloodyMalays in the submarine.

Like the old days...'eh, Skipper?

Even better.

- [Colonel Lyon] Right, gather around chaps!

Now, as we're less than 12 miles from Singapore,

let's just recap.

Now, tonight we'll unload the SBs

and the drivers, and we'll go in for the attack.

You, Raymond, will stand by here on the junk.

And we'll rendezvous back here at 05:00.

Then we collect the canoes and stores

and sink the junk in deep water.

- And the SBs?

- That's right.

Then we'll make our way back to Merapas Island

to meet up with the submarine.

Now, I've allowed five miles a night.

And it's 70 miles to Merapas.

Now, we'll be there in 14 days.

That's plenty of time to make the submarine pickup

on the 8th of November.

Have you got any questions?

- Stand to. Japs.

- Right, quick as you can.

Two handguns please, quickly.

Two handguns, please.

Absolutely no shooting unless I give the order.

[boat engine roaring]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- They're onto us! [gunshots firing]

[dramatic music]

You were told no shooting.

Who was the stupid idiot that started all that?

I will have his balls when I find him!

That is a Malay patrol boat. They are civilian police officers.

Unarmed!

[dramatic music]

Oh, God.

Right!

Don, get the canoes out as fast as you can.

- Not the SBs?

- No, we're pulling out.

[soldiers grumble]

- We can still go in tonight.

Singapore is only 12 miles away.

- We have blown it!

In a matter of hours, the Japs

will be swarming all over this area.

- Ivan, we have to hang around here for four weeks anyway,

before the sub picks us up.

We might at least give it a go.

- We can't turn back within sight of the target.

Ivan, we can be in and gone

before they even wake to what's happening.

And it will give them something else

to think about in the morning.

- No.

It is my decision.

- [Soldier] What?

- It is my decision!

We're getting out.

Now, the most important thing,

as far as I'm concerned,

is the Japs do not get their hands on the SBs.

There'll be another day.

Now, move!

- All right lads, jump to it.

So close.

[dramatic music]

[waves crashing]

[dramatic music]

[bomb explodes]

[dramatic music]

[waves crashing]

[airplane engine roaring]

[men speaking in foreign language]

[drum music]

- Zeroes!

[waves crashing]

[airplane engine roaring]

[man speaking indistinctly]

- [Captain Lyon] Be quick.

Come on people.

[gunshots firing]

[birds chirping]

[gunshots firing]

- Clear us a path I'll hold them up here.

- Okay, boss.

[gunshots firing]

- I'll stay with you, Ivan.

- Captain Page, you will go with the men

and that's an order!

Now move, move!

Come on, move!

- We'll wait for you at Merapas.

- You'll be all right, Dougie.

[gunshots firing]

[gunshots firing]

- [Soldier] Were gonna [unintelligible].

[gunshots firing]

[dramatic music]

[gunshots firing]

[dramatic music]

[gunshots firing]

[birds chirping]

- Right, gentlemen.

Our date with the submarine is four days away,

and we've still got five men unaccounted for.

We know Don bought it.

And we have to presume that Colonel Lyon is dead too.

Any suggestions?

- You think we should send a scouting party back for him?

- Where would we start?

- Japs!

[gunshots firing]

- Get down!

[men shrieking]

[gunshots firing]

- It's about four miles to the next island.

Keep together.

If anyone gets into trouble, we all wait.

- You hear what the man said, eh?

- We shouldn't strike any trouble.

- He's taken us for a flight, all right.

We used to make rafts out of them when we were kids.

- We'll hide out in this next island,

until the eighth.

Then one of us can swim back here,

and try to make contact with the submarine.

- What if the Nips catch up with us again?

- We'll keep moving on.

- Plenty of cover around here.

- Plenty of Japs too.

- What's the plan if we miss the sub?

- Start heading south.

[dramatic music]

[birds chirping]

- You can't say I didn't warn you.

It'll be a long swim.

- How long do you reckon it'll take to get back to Australia?

- How long we been on the run now?

- About nine weeks.

- Well, we can manage to pinch a boat somewhere.

- Here, give me a hand. [man speaks indistinctly]

- Yeah, it's only about 2000 miles.

- [unintelligible]

- Well, we're on our own, mate.

The sooner we get started...

- Let's go.

[birds chirping]

[dramatic music]

[birds chirping]

[dramatic music]

[car engine revving]

[man coughs]

[car hoots]

- It is unfortunate for you men,

that you have been taken prisoner.

Your status will be decided,

after you have been fully interrogated.

And now, you must be made a little more presentable.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- You will go with the Sergeant.

[man speaks in foreign language]

[dramatic music]

[men speaking in foreign language]

- Good morning.- Morning.

- Have you injured your leg?- No, no...it's just a sprain.

If I forget about it,I dare say it'll go away.

We will have the doctor examine it,and we'll get you a crutch.

This is good enough, thank you.

What are those notches for?

- I've been counting one of those every week since I...- Since you what?

Since I started ducking for coverfrom you fellows.

What is your rank and service?

I am MajorReginald Middleton Otto Ingletonof the Royal Marines.

What part of England are you from,Major Ingleton?

Wanstead...in Essex.

- Married?- Yes.

- Wife's name?- Sybil.

- Your age?- 29.

How do you come to be involvedwith these Australian soldiers?

No, no...that's as far as we go.What you're getting, you've got.

- I suppose, eucalyptus leaves remind you of home, eh?

- Please, sit down.

- You are Australian, aren't you?

- Yes, I am Australian.

Page, Robert Charles,

Captain, Australian Imperial Force.

Regimental number NX 19158.

- Have some coffee, captain?

- Thanks.

Am I being given special treatment because I'm an officer?

- No, coffee's being given to everyone.

- Even the lowest ranks?

- Of course. [speaks in foreign language]

- Look, I'll be honest with you.

I'm no captain.

I'm an Able Seaman in the Australian Navy.

[man speaks in foreign language]

My name is Falls, Walter Gordon,

but my mates call me Poppa.

- Poppa?

Why Poppa?

- 'Cause I'm a bit, uh, long in the tooth.

My age, I'm old.

- How old?

- 24. Over the hill.

- Where you from?

- Casino...in New South Wales.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- And what is the nature of your group?

You prisoners.

- We're a...a mobile laundry unit.

We came up here to do your washing!

[man speaks in foreign language]

[table thuds]

[man speaks in foreign language]

Cheers.

[men speaks in foreign language]

[birds chirping]

[ship hooting]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- SB?

We picked this up.

It belonged to one of our men.

Would this be him?

There was a notebook with his body.

- You were on a special mission called Operation Rimau.

- What happened to the body?

[men speaks in foreign language]

- Buried him, where he was killed, on Karas Island.

- He was our commanding officer.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Nothing is written on the grave marker.

I wish I could put some kind of inscription on it.

- Put, Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Lyon,

MBE, the Gordon Highlanders, RIP.

[men speaks in foreign language]

[ship hooting]

How is Major Ingleton today?

- The better for your inquiry, Mr. Tamiya.

- These things are for you.

- Thank you very much.

- You were asking about books.

These are the only ones I can find in English.

- Thank you.

Ah, this is better, Shakespeare.

- Oh, you read Shakespeare?

- You find that strange?

- No, I suppose not.

Many Japanese officers, read and even write poetry.

- You're joking.

- No, I'm very serious.

It is considered a most appropriate thing to do.

- Sometimes, Mr. Tamiya, you sound like an Oxford graduate.

- Now, Major Ingleton, you've hurt my feelings.

I'm a Cambridge man.

- Really?

- Why should I lie to you?

Oh.

I thought this might interest you.

- Thank you, Tennyson.

- Yeah.

He is my favorite English poet.

- I'm glad it has wide margins.

- Yes, you can start keeping a diary.

- Well.

- Thank you.

- Oh, do any of you play chess?

- Yeah, you're right.

- Oh, I have a set.

I will bring it tomorrow.

- You play, Mr. Tamiya?

- Not very well.

- Good, I'll take you on.

- No, I cannot.

- Thanks again.

- Charming fellow.

[man coughs]

[door opens]

- Mongrels!

- It's [indistinct].

- It's Lieutenant Sargent!

- Major Ingleton.

- Poppa, where are we?

- Singapore.

- My God, how far did you get?

Made it to Bali.

- That's halfway home.

- Better than any of us.

- Who else is with you?

- [Sargent] Raymond and Riggs.

- [Soldier] Where are they?

- [unintelligible].

- It's all right, Dag, we'll give it another go,

you know, they're tracking you.

You can never go.

- [Sargent] Yeah, I'll be in it.

Just gimme, a couple of minutes.

Just a couple of minutes.

[dramatic music]

[sergeants speaking in foreign language]

What part of Australia are you from,Captain Page?

Queanbeyan, near Canberra.

But I was living in Sydneywhen I joined the Army.

How long have you beenin the Army?

I'm not in the Army.I'm a civilian.

But...you're wearing a uniform.

Even an interpreter has to wear a uniform,when he works for the Army.

- Were you an interpreter before the war?- No.

I was in the Diplomatic Corp.

- Here in Singapore?- For 2 and 1/2 years.

Where were you during the fighting?

In Chunging prison.

What for?

The British claimed I was doinga bit of spying on the side.

- And, were you?- Well, perhaps.

You know what it's like then.

- Being in jail?- Mmm.- Oh, I do indeed.

I both understand and sympathize.

- How close were you to Singapore when you blew up the junk?

- Oh, 12 miles or so,

just across the straits.

- It was fortunate for us that you destroyed those SBs.

- Why do you say that?

- You'd have created havoc

if you'd got them into Singapore.

- How much do you know about the SBs?

- Oh, everything.

Major Ingleton told us all about them.

- Ingleton?

- Yes, we discuss a lot of things.

- Did I tell you, I used to live near his home in Essex.

Oh, it's your move.

- Mr. Tamiya, do you really know everything about the SBs?

- Yes, Captain Page.

We do.

- Well, I suppose they're nothing new to you.

You've had midget submarines for years.

- Yes, that's true.

[door squeaks]

[door locks]

- Otto, why did you tell our friends about the SBs?

- What are you talking about?

- There's no point in denying it.

Tamiya told me about your little chat.

- Are you accusing me of giving information to the enemy?

- Did you or didn't you?

- No, I did not!

- You disappoint me, Bob.

- You didn't tell him anything?

- Of course not.

- Did you tell them about the SBs, Bob?

[dramatic music]

- Yes, I did.

- That's a pity.

- He lied to me, Otto.

I thought...

He softened me up by pretending to be my friend,

and then he lied.

Wait til I get my hands on that bastard.

[soldiers chattering]

- There, take it easy, Bob.

[ship hooting]

- I trusted you, Tamiya.

[soldiers cheering]

[soldiers chattering]

- Now, hold it.

- Get out of the way!

- Take it easy, Bob!

[soldiers shrieking]

- [Captain Page] Just stay out of this.

[gunshot fires]

- Go on, shoot!

Shoot!

[gunshot fires]

[sergeant speaks in foreign language]

- Nobody asked you to help!

[sergeants speaks in foreign language]

[gate squeaks]

- How's your arm, Bob? - Fine, fine.

- What's it like in the outside world?

- Busy. Listen, fellows.

The Japs had decided to put the boot in

because they weren't getting the information they wanted.

But, Tamiya tricked me and got enough on the SBs

to stop them from torturing us.

We owe him then.

- Where do you hear all this?

- Hayakawa just told me.

- So it appears we misjudged Tamiya.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Today, the last day,

Water Kempatai,

tomorrow you go.

- What all this mean, old friend?

- You Rimau,

you, prisoner of war,

war criminal.

- Shit.

- Tomorrow, you go,

Outram Road Jail.

[dramatic music]

[sergeant speaks in foreign language]

- Right, what a dump!

[sergeant speaks in foreign language]

[door thuds]

[door thuds]

- Mr. Tamiya.

- [speaks in foreign language]

- He's Major Tachibana of the legal department.

He's here to investigate the legal implications

of your Rimau activities.

- [speaks in foreign language]

- State your name and rank.

- Don't be silly,

you know my name and rank as well as I do.

- State your name and rank.

- Now, I'm not going to apologize,

but I know why you tried to trick me.

The men asked me to thank you.

I'm sorry for knocking you around.

- All right.

But we really must get on with it.

[men speaking in foreign language]

- My name is Page, Robert Charles,

Captain, Australian Imperial Force.

Regimental number N--

[airplane engine roaring]

[alarm rings]

[bombs falling]

- Are those ours?

- It's the Yanks!

Give it to them!

[soldiers cheering]

- [News Reporter] In Singapore this morning,

attacks by low flying American bombers,

resulted in a number of direct hits

on cargo ships anchored in the straits

and extensive damage to docking installations

in Keppel Harbor.

But the big news of the day comes from--

[chains rattle]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[door thuds]

[footsteps creaking]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- How are you?

- I'm well, and you?

How's your arm?

- Not too bad, thanks to you.

I'd come to think of us as friends, Mr. Tamiya.

That's why I did the block when I thought you'd tricked me.

- In our circumstances, it is very difficult to be friends,

but we must try.

Our war news is not good.

It is a fight for time.

- What do you mean?

- Prolong the investigation as long as you can.

Did you know the war in Europe has ended?

- Germany surrendered?

- Unconditionally.

- That's marvelous.

Bloody marvelous.

When all this is over,

you'll have to come and visit us in Australia.

We'll tell them how you tried to help us here in prison.

- It will be impossible.

We've been told to fight on until the death.

- But you're a civilian, that can't apply to you?

- I am Japanese.

- Yes, but, I don't see the point now.

The war will end. All wars do.

- Do you mind if I call you Bob?

- Of course not.

- Then you must call me Minoru.

- Minoru.

But I thought you blokes only used first names

with very close friends.

- Yes.

That is our way.

[birds chirping]

[men speaking in foreign language]

[door thuds]

[men speaking in foreign language]

- Yes.

- Please.

[man speaks in foreign language]

[door thuds]

- Let's get some air in here.

- Yes, good.

[men shouting]

What are they doing that for?

- They are protesting their innocence.

- What did they do?

- Blew up some ships in Singapore Harbor.

[dramatic music]

- When?

- September before last.

Bob, sit down.

This is very important,

so please pay attention.

You are going to trial, but you have nothing to fear.

General Itagaki will be generous.

All it requires is a petition from you

and the other prisoners.

Do you understand?

- Hmm.

- Please, write it now.

You must point out that,

you were carrying out orders

from your superiors in Australia.

That, as soldiers, you had to obey.

- We made the attack on Singapore.

- What?

- September 26th, 1943, we blew up seven ships.

- That's impossible. There were no SBs then.

You said so yourself.

- Yes, that's true. - Then how could you do it?

- By canoe.

- What?

- You cannot kill innocent people.

- Bob, you mustn't tell anybody about this.

You would be putting a noose around your neck.

Keep your mouth shut.

- Okay.

- Write the petition now.

You were under oath.

- Keeping my mouth shut would be the same

as killing them with my bare hands.

- Bob,

if you don't write that you were carrying out orders,

you will be tried as war criminals.

- Minoru, I'm grateful for your concern.

But I can't let those men die for something we did.

- Please, write the petition.

- We made the attack on Singapore.

They are innocent!

Let them go!

- Bob.

- Minoru,

will you do this?

[dramatic music]

- Bob, I promise you,

I will do something about the Chinese.

But, please,

you do something to help yourself.

Bob!

- We knew the risks.

[gavel pounds]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Having studied the indictment of the prosecutor,

I wish to ask the accused some questions.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- [Tamiya] Captain Page.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Is it true, that your men fired

on one of our police patrol boats,

while your junk was flying the Japanese flag?

- Yes, some of them did.

[Tamiya speaks in foreign language]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Is it also true, that you were all disguised,

as Malay fishermen?

- Some of us were.

[men speaking in foreign language]

- [Tamiya] Were you carrying out orders from your superiors

when you did these things?

- Our only orders were to get into Singapore Harbor

as best we could,

and destroy as many ships and installations as possible.

[men speaking in foreign language]

- Is it correct that,

while carrying out your operation within our territory,

your men didn't wear any military insignia

or badges of rank?

- Yes it is.

Rank doesn't mean very much to us.

- [Tamiya] Well, Jesus.

[speaks in foreign language]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- [Tamiya] Were you ordered not to wear any insignia?

- No.

We made our own decisions.

- Yeah. [speaks in foreign language]

[airplane engine roaring]

Thank you.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- [Tamiya] Do any of you accused wish

to add to the evidence?

[Tamiya speaks in foreign language]

- I call for the summing up of the prosecutor.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Not only do the accused,

unanimously admit their guilt,

but the statements of the witnesses and other evidence,

unpreprove that guilt.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- [Tamiya] However, the heroism they displayed

on this crucial war front is beyond description.

[men speaks in foreign language]

- They traveled 3000 miles on land and sea

with great determination.

And overcame incredible hardships

to penetrate deep into regions

under Japanese occupation.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- We do not hesitate to call them, real heroes.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- This is a feeling of the Japanese people.

[men speaking in foreign language]

- It is our duty to ensure,

that their names will remain

in the hearts of Britains and Australians, for all eternity.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- I therefore consider,

a death sentence should be given

to each of these accused persons.

[suspenseful music]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[gavel pounds]

- This court will now recess for a period of 30 minutes.

[man speaks in foreign language]

[suspenseful music]

[men speaks in foreign language]

[gavel pounds]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- [Tamiya] The judgment will now be given.

[dramatic music]

[Tamiya speaks in foreign language]

This court, sentences all of the accused to death.

[dramatic music]

You men are all true heroes. I wouldlike to watch you march from this court.

Major Ingleton, would you please issue the order

to leave the court?

- Captain Page.

- Thank you, sir.

- Squad!

Attention!

Left turn!

Quick march!

[boots thudding]

[dramatic music]

[chains rattling]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Thank you.

- It's bloody rough, I think.

- It's the espionage that did it.

- We all knew where we stood on that score.

- Well, they didn't say anything about the other raid.

- What's the point?

Can't hang us twice.

- You think they'll hang us?

- Nah, more like a firing squad.

- Or beheading.

That's their way.

- I'll do myself in first.

[men speaks in foreign language]

[boots thudding]

- What's this for?

Why are there new clothes?

- For you.

You are to be executed tomorrow.

- How?

- By the traditional method of Japanese Bushido.

- Beheading?

You Jap bastard.

- That's enough.

Dougie.

- Okay, Poppa.

- Settle down, everyone.

Minoru, tell us about Bushido.

[dramatic music]

- In Samurai society, as a mark of respect

due to a person with high status,

suicide by Harakiri would be ordered

instead of an execution.

A second...always accompanies a condemned man,

and would cut off his head to ease the pain of dying.

Thus, the relationship between the man to die

and his second was not one of enmity,

rather, it was a relationship of reliable

and trust and friends.

[dramatic music]

[chains rattling]

- Beheading.

I can live without that.

- Doesn't make much difference how they do it,

dead is dead.

- I'd rather go out fighting.

- Look, fellas,

if dying's all that's left, that's it.

[hums]

♪ Under the shade of a coolibah tree, ♪

♪ And he sang as he watched

♪ And waited 'til his Billy boiled, ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda, ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ And he sang as he watched

♪ And waited 'til his Billy boiled, ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda, ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ And he sang as he watched

♪ And waited 'til his Billy boiled, ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ And he sang as he watched

♪ And waited 'til his Billy boiled ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me. ♪

[door thuds]

[men speaking in foreign language]

- [Soldier] "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

"He leadeth me through still waters."

"He shelters me from my enemies."

"He leadeth me through the valley of the shadow of death."

"And I fear no evil."

"Our Father, who art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on Earth as it is Heaven.

Give us this day, our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive them who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil,

for thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory,

forever and ever, amen."

[cock crows]

[dramatic music]

[birds chirping]

[cock crows]

[birds chirping]

[dog barks]

[birds chirping]

[door thuds]

[boots thudding]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[boots thudding]

[car engine roaring]

[birds chirping]

[car engine roaring]

[dramatic music]

[car engine roaring]

[door thuds]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[birds chirping]

- "Jesus wept."

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Fellas.

[dramatic music]

[men speaking in foreign language]

[dramatic music]

[birds chirping]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- You will stand easy.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- You are also free to smoke.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Dismissed.

[boots thudding]

- Hey, Bob.

- Good to know you.

- See you, Bob.

- Good luck, mate.

- Willie.

- All the best, Bob.

- [Sergeant] Seconds fall in.

[dramatic music]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- The officers in front of you,

are your executioners.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Each man must state his name and rank.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Major Reginald Middleton Ingleton.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Captain Robert Charles Page.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Lieutenant Walter George Carey.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Lieutenant Albert Leslie Sargent.

[motorbike engine roaring]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[birds chirping]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- See you.

You old Pommy bastard.

[birds chirping]

[bike engine roaring]

[sergeants speaking in foreign language]

[bike engine roaring]

[boots thud]

[sergeants speaking in foreign language]

[birds chirping]

[Tamiya shrieks]

[dramatic music]