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Wake up, Lawrence.

What is it?
Why so early, Sergeant Hara?

Hurry up!

- What does he want?
- I'll find out.

What?

You don't have to take orders
from this man, you know, Lawrence.

Well, I'm the liaison officer.
So I'm liaising.

What did he say?

You're sure you know what
you're doing, old man?

Yes, and what ever this is,
it's important to him that I see it.

Let's go, Sergeant.

You don't understand.
Only Lawrence understands.

- I'll keep an eye on them sir.
- Very good.

Bastards!

Attention!

Face forward!

Present arms!

Order arms.

As you were!

Step aside.

Lawrence, there's been
an unprecedented scandal.

I didn't report it to the captain.
I'll deal with it myself.

If it's so secret,
why are you showing me?

For you to be a witness,
just in case.

You know what he did?

This Dutch soldier?

No, he was just locked up
for a week for stealing bananas.

- The Korean guard, then?
- Of course.

Kanemoto,
tell him what you did.

Tell this British officer
what you did!

Kanemoto...

can't bring yourself to say it?

Too ashamed?

Tell him, you son of a bitch!

Get it now, Lawrence?

Last night during rounds,

he snuck into
that Dutch soldier's cell.

Kanemoto, show us
what you did to his white ass.

What did you do with your pistol
or cannon or whatever you call it?

Since you're not
much of a talker, show us!

Untie him.

Kanemoto, do it.

Do it!

Oh, I see.

It's shrunk and useless now,
is that it?

All right.

If you show us,

I'll let you commit
proper seppuku.

Sergeant Hara,
have you lost your mind?

Lawrence...

don't you want to see seppuku?

You don't know the Japanese
until you've seen seppuku.

I don't want to see it.

Do you want to make me
hate the Japanese?

I'll do it!

Lawrence, out of the way!

Why do you have
to add to his shame?

Shame?

He didn't even resist being buggered!
He has no shame!

Can you get up?

Let go of him!

You're Dutch, aren't you?

De Jong, sir. Karel De Jong.

Now you'd better
sit down.

Now tell me
what happened.

In the beginning he came in to
dress this wound of mine.

For three days, every night.

He was, he was very kind.

But then last night, he suddenly...

Captain Yonoi! This is
Colonel Lawrence! Come quickly!

Get back!

Very well, Kanemoto.
I'll be your second.

Stop it!

Shut up!

- Sergeant Hara!
- Watch carefully!

Sergeant Hara!

May your soul -

The captain!

Attention!

Present arms!

Order arms.

What's going on here?

Lawrence, this is a matter
for the Imperial Army.

Then why did you bring me here?

Who ordered this execution?

Allow me to explain.
This is not an execution.

Sergeant Kanemoto is trying
to commit suicide for his crime.

And you're just looking on?

If he's guilty,
why didn't you report it?

- Out of compassion.
- Compassion?

If his death is ruled accidental,

his family will receive a pension.

No doubt
they're starving right now.

What crime has he committed?

I can brief you on that later.

Sergeant Hara,
I don't have time now.

I'm due at a military trial
in Batavia.

Brief me when I get back,
including why Lawrence was called.

This way, sir.

Captain Yonoi, sir.

- Show him in.
- Entering!

Captain Yonoi,
reporting for today's trial.

Thank you for coming.

This is Captain Yonoi,
one of our rising stars.

This is Colonel Fujimura,
He'll preside at today's trial.

Honored to serve with you.

Good to have you with us.

1st Lieutenant Iwata.

The military situation here
is very grim.

Your service is invaluable,
Captain Yonoi.

Please be diligent.

Gentlemen, the defendant
is a difficult man.

Please be prepared.

All rise for the judges.

Before the court is the case
of British Major Jack Celliers.

Your name is given
as Jack Celliers.

Is that correct?

- Why shouldn't it be?
- What do you mean by that?

Answer the question!
Is your name Jack Celliers?

I've answered that question
about a hundred times.

Omit recitation of the evidence.
Prosecutor, present your argument.

The defendant is Jack Celliers,

a major in the British army.

The incident took place
around August 10, 1942,

after Allied Forces surrendered
in the Dutch sector of Indonesia.

The defendant parachuted
into the Bandung valley of Java

and waged guerrilla warfare
along with four of his men.

Specifically,
on October 16,

they ambushed a Japanese
transport unit in the jungle

on its way from the airstrip.

They seized food,
supplies and ammunition,

killed PFC Takeshi Tazaki
and one other,

and wounded Corporal Sawafuji
and four others.

Pursuant to Section 1,
Chapter 5, of the military code,

we hereby recommend

the death penalty.

Accordingly, he should receive
the death penalty...

as prescribed in Section 1,
chapter 5 of the regulations.

How do you plead?

Not guilty. I'm not a criminal.

I am a soldier in His Majesty's army.

One month ago I came out of the
Djaja Sempoer mountains.

I surrendered to Colonel Utsumi
of the Imperial Japanese Army.

I was imprisioned at Sukabumi.
3 days in solitary confinement.

Then I was questioned
by Lieutenant Ito.

He asked me my name and
rank and I told him.

Then Lieutenant Ito asked me:
"Is that true?"

I replied: "of course, it is.
I'm with the British army."

Do you mean you would never
give a false name?

Let me ask you something.

Why would a man who's about to
die give a false name?

A japanese soldier if caught
would give a false name.

But then, a Japanese soldier would
never submit to being caught.

- He would prefer to die.
- But then, I'm not a japanese.

Why did you refuse to tell
about yourself?

You must tell us your past history.

My past is my business.

What was the reason for
giving yourself up?

You've just read it,
haven't you?

Your men said they'd kill the villagers
if I didn't give myself up.

- How many men did you have?
- None.

- Liar!
- I'm not a liar.

I had four men but they were killed in
action. Therefore, I was on my own.

We know you led a group
of native soldiers.

We are bound to find them
sooner or later.

Why don't you confess your crime?

I've never led natives.

Look, why don't I have a defense counsel?

Exactly what kind of trial
are you giving me?

This whole thing's a bloody farce.

Erase all remarks by the defendant
from the court record.

Sir, may I question him?

"To be or not to be.
"That is the question, Mr. Celliers."

The prosecutor said that you
landed in Java by parachute.

Under whose orders?

Under the orders of the
Supreme Commander of...

His Majesty's forces in India.

Were you not under the
commander of Java?

You know I came to Java in August.

You know the commander in
Java was captured in March.

- You know Captain...
- Captain Yonoi.

if he fought in India under orders
from his supreme commander,

then we must treat him
as a prisoner of war.

There's no proof of that.

I believe he's telling the truth.

What were you asked when captured?

Were you asked how to
intended to conduct a...

guerilla war with only five men?

Well, I suspect they thought we
were an advance party...

for a new campaign presumably
the invasion of Java

They wanted to know dates and places.

What did you say?

I said I thought they were crackers.

What?

- I said I thought they were mad.
- And then?

Then they stopped feeding me,
and started beating me I'm sorry to say.

Can you prove that you were beaten?

Put on your shirt!

No more questions!

We will confer as to our decision.

The court retires.

A delay this long usually means
a firing squad.

But nowadays new officers like
to try out their swords on white necks.

The verdict in your case
has been postponed.

We shall wait for further instructions.

Get up!

Good day for it, sir.

Yes.

You have a family waiting for you,
Corporal?

Wife and two kids, sir.
One with, one without.

How's about yourself, sir?

- Tea?
- Yes, I'd like that.

The prisoner, sir!

Can you guess
what I'm thinking.

Yes, I think so. Can you?

He's put up a fight to the end.

You have been found
guilty on all charges.

The sentence will be carried
out without delay.

Prepare him.

I don't need any help.

Let him go.

I've practiced walking for years.

Firing positions!

I don't need that.

Idiot!

What are you saying?

The blind fold is for the firing squad!

So they don't look into
your eyes as you die.

Very well. Let him be.

Commence!

Prepare to fire!

Aim!

Fire!

That's a good one!

Sergeant Hara.

Sergeant Hara.

Lawrence...

don't interrupt my nap.

I'm sorry.

I dreamed I was in Manchuria,

settling in
on top of Marlene Dietrich.

What is it?

I need to talk
to you in private.

What's he doing here?

Can you keep him at HQ?
I'd like you to protect him.

Why?

The other men heard
about what happened.

I told you not to say anything.

I didn't.

But there were Japanese soldiers
and Korean guards there.

Are you saying
Japanese soldiers talked?

It was probably the guards.

Soon everyone will know.
Don't you get it?

Yeah, I get it.

You think they'll all want
to bugger him.

So it's true:

All Englishmen are queer.

Don't be stupid.

Listen, I need your help.

A Japanese soldier never asks
for help from the enemy.

You there...

are you queer?

He says you are a
homosexual. Are you?

No sir. I am not.

He says he's not.

You're all afraid of queers,
aren't you?

Samurai aren't afraid of queers.

War strengthens bonds
of friendship between men,

but that doesn't mean

all soldiers turn queer.

You're not genuine soldiers.
You're lowly POWs.

That's why you lack discipline

and beg me for favors.

You should be ashamed.

Sergeant Hara...

I have nothing...

to be ashamed of.

- What is it?
- The MPs have brought a new prisoner.

Another queer for your ranks.

Sir, a prisoner has arrived
from military police HQ.

Please acknowledge transfer.

I, Sergeant Gengo Hara,

hereby acknowledge transfer
of the prisoner.

Your name and rank?

Celliers, Jack. Major,
British Army.

Celliers? Jack Celliers?
Straffer Jack?

Good morning, Colonel.

Son of a bitch!

- Sergeant!
- Attention!

Attention!

No! Stop it! Stop it!

You! Officer. Do you
know this man?

Yes. We served together in Libya.
We fought the Germans.

Hara, take him to the infirmary.

What kind of a man is he?

Is he a close friend of yours?

No. He's not a close friend, no.

- What kind of a soldier is he?
- He's a fine soldier.

We had a nickname for him
in the 8th Army.

We called him Straffer Jack.

Straffer is a kind of um...

it's very difficult to translate.
Straffer is um...

This is astonishingly difficult sometimes.

In any case,
he was a soldier's soldier.

Why are you so
interested in him?

- Sergeant Hara reporting!
- Enter!

- What did the doctor say?
- I didn't speak to -

Fool!

Lawrence, I want him in good
health as quickly as possible.

That's an order!

Captain Yanoi, You don't have to order me
to look after a sick man.

That's my order. I will send the japanese
medic to see him.

Why are you so concerned
about Major Celliers?

Hara, send for the medic.

- Yajima reporting!
- Enter!

- Sir, the POW commander is here.
- Show him in.

Lawrence, what are you doing here?

You spend more time with these
Japs than you do with your own men.

I called Colonel Lawrence here.
Now from you...

I want the names of all
prisoners who are informed...

on the subject of armaments
and ammunition.

Who are the experts here?

I am not required under
International Law...

to furnish the enemy with
any information.

This is not North Africa.
We are not Germans!

There is no Geneva Convention here.

If you do not follow my orders,
I will have to replace you.

Replace me?
What are you talking about?

Replace me with whom?

Do you know what
he's talking about?

Because if you do, I'd
advise you to tell me.

No sir. I don't know.

You promised to improve our food ration.

You eat the same as we eat.

Give me the names of your experts.

No, Captain Yonoi.
I will not.

Captain Yonoi. Please try to understand.

Group Captain Hicksley
is an honourable man.

"They are all, all honourable men."

As commanding officer, I prefer
another honourable man.

Lawrence, this armaments thing.

I think we can string it out
for quite sometime, don't you?

I mean, young Tojo will never
notice the difference.

They're not fool, you know,
sir, the japanese.

They know how badly the war's
going for them.

A couple months, it could
all be over.

Then why not try and stay alive
for a couple of months?

Sir, I know these people...

I wish you'de be guided by my knowledge.

I know these people, too.
They're the enemy.

And you're a British soldier.

You know they once beat the Russians.

Really? What school did you go to?

Winchester.

Who's looking after Major Celliers?

- I am, sir.
- How's he coming along?

He's a tough man.
Anyone else would have been dead

When will he be up and
about do you think?

Christ, I had to give him a sedative,
so he'll sleep...

most of the time. I'd say a
couple of weeks.

- Good. Where's the big chief?
- I'll get him for you.

All right you malingerers.
Now hear this!

Colonel Lawrence is going to
stay here for a few nights.

- He's one of those, mate!
- Want my boxing gloves, Colonel?

- Where is the officer who arrived today?
- Sergeant Hara.

Where is he?

- He must be sleeping.
- Take me to him.

If he's such an excellent officer,
why was he captured?

He wasn't captured.
He surrendered.

But the captain -

Why does the captain want
to make him POW commander?

Do you know?
- No, I don't.

Yes, you do. Tell me.

Maybe because he's a born leader.

Lawrence, why are you still alive?

I'd admire you more
if you killed yourself.

How can a fine officer like you
stand such shame?

Why don't you commit suicide?

We don't consider it shameful.

Being taken prisoner
is a matter of chance.

Of course...

we don't enjoy being prisoners.

We want to escape.

We want to go on fighting you.

Don't lie.
Those are just excuses.

It's true!
We want to win the war.

For us, this camp isn't the end.

We won't kill ourselves.
That's cowardly.

You're just scared of dying.
I'm not.

You'll wake the patients.

I enlisted when I was 17.

The night before I left,
I went to the village shrine

and offered up my life
to the emperor.

Yes, but...

you're not dead, are you?

It's all right, Jack.
It's Lawrence.

It's all right. You're fine.
It's all right.

Sergeant Hara isn't going to hurt you.

Sergeant Hara isn't going to hurt anyone.

What on earth possessed Yonoi
to save me do you think? - I don't know.

What?

What did he say?

What a funny face!
Beautiful eyes, though.

Make him well.
Cure him quickly.

All right?

Christ, what's that bloody noise!
What's the matter with them?

They're trying to become
super human gods.

They live in the past,
these fellows.

God help them, Lawrence.

And that's our Captain Yonoi's voice,
isn't it?

He's been screaming his head off
ever since you got here.

If he's got something
on his mind...

why doesn't he come out with it?

I rather think he is.

Perhaps we're both on the same ladder.

Are you okay?

It was a nightmare.

I'm sorry I failed
to follow your sword.

Are you all right?

What is it?

Forgive me for interrupting.

Ueki is worried that these training
sessions are becoming violent.

Furthermore, your shouting
makes the prisoners uneasy.

Lawrence asked me to talk to you.

- Is Lawrence here?
- He's outside.

Is it true that our shouts
disturb the prisoners?

Yes, yes, sir. It is.

And you? Do you feel uneasy?

Well, I find the noise irritating,
but it doesn't make me uneasy.

However, some of the sick men...

- That sick officer, too?
- Major Celliers? Yes, he is upset by the noise

I do not want the prisoners
to become upset.

Thank you, Captain Yonoi.

How wonderful it would have been...

if we could have invited all of you...

to a gathering under our cherry trees.

Yes.

My fondest memory of
Japan is the snow.

The trees covered with snow.

- It was snowing on that day.
- What day?

Don't you know?
February 26, 1936.

Yes... yes.

I was in Tokyo that day.
You too?

No. I had been sent off to
Manchuria 3 months before.

I was not there
for the uprising.

You regret that?

My comrades were executed.

I was left to die after them.

I see. So you were one of the
shining young officers...

Hara!

We'll make Kanemoto
commit seppuku at 9:00 a.m.

Order Hicksley and his senior officers
to attend. The victim as well.

And bring that sick officer, Lawrence.

Attention!

Salute the captain!

Present arms!

At ease!

Lawrence, where is that sick officer?

- The doctor stopped him from coming.
- You stopped him, Lawrence.

He is very weak.

Where is the victim?
Let him step forward.

We're here on your orders.

We're under no obligation to
watch this execution.

If you had any humanity left in you, sir,
you would let us leave.

Any of you who can't watch it...

keep your eyes shut or turn round!

But I will no permit you
to leave this site.

Allied officers do not turn
their back on the enemy.

Ready?

Lift your head up!

Lift your head up,
you son of a bitch!

Stop it!

Oh, my God, he's bitten his tongue off,
for Christ's sake.

Roll him over.

Christ. He's swallowed part
of his tongue.

Hara, prepare the rifle salute.

Ready for firing!
Load rifles!

- Not yet.
- We want to pay our respects!

- You Jap lover!
- Stop them.

You have no respect for anything!
Not even your own men!

You're wrong, Captain Yonoi!
By God you're wrong.

You are to say nothing
about today's execution...

or this soldier's death
until it is announced.

If you're so bloody right,
you've got nothing to hide!

We must wait for the
official announcement.

This is the right way.
I am right.

Colonel Lawrence,
am I not right?

No. No, Captain Yonoi.
You're wrong.

We're all wrong.

I order all prisoners,
each and everyone of you...

not to go out to the fields
today or tomorrow.

Instead, you shall stay inside
your barracks for 48 hours...

and undergo "gyo".

You'll observe gyo for 48 hours.
There will be no eating

or drinking. Is this clear?

What the hell's gyo?

It's a Japanese cure for laziness.

Laziness, Jesus Christ!

Why don't you listen?

He means spiritual laziness.
And he believes...

that if he takes away the food
and the water, then he also...

takes away the nourishment
for the laziness!

You don't believe that bullshit,
do you?

I don't fucking know!

Sir, I will tell you something that
may surprise you.

If we do it, he'll do it!

- Pheasant!
- Here.

- Mills!
- Here.

- Ibbertson
- I'm hungry.

- Adams.
- Eggs and bacon, mate.

- Baxter!
- Steak and kidney-pie.

Put up with it for another 13 or 14 hours.
You can do it!

How about giving us a wee whisky?

- Francis
- What about a double whisky?

De Jong!

Next! Who's next?

He's dead.

He's not dead!
He'll be back in a few days!

De Jong has been killed!

De Jong has been Killed!
De Jong has been Killed!

Thank you.

Next.

- Craig!
- Here.

- Smith!
- Yes.

Celliers!

- Where is Major Celliers?
- He said he'd be back soon.

One man is missing.
Major Celliers.

Look, he'll be here in a moment.
Just mark us all here.

I can't do that. I'll have to
report him missing.

No, please.
Just a few minutes!

Celliers?

That's right.

What are those flowers for?

Food.

Food?

I wish they were white, but these
were all that I could find.

In memory of De Jong.

It might be nice if you were to
say something Lawrence.

Our father who art in Heaven
Hallowed by thy name

Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done
on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day
our daily bread

And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trepass against us.

- Give me another.
- And lead us not into tempt-

What are you doing?
We must observe the gyo.

What the hell are you doing, Major?

I gave Major Celliers permission, sir.
The men are hungry and sick...

Ah, changed our tune, have we?
What happened to the gyo?

- What are all these flowers for?
- In memory of De Jong, sir.

He didn't give me permission, sir.
And it was my idea.

Really?

Lawrence, over here.

You knew of Yonoi's plan to
replace me as commander?

Yes, sir, I did.

May I ask why
you didn't tell me?

It's still only a rumor, sir.

You don't like me, do you?

Captain Yonoi doesn't like you.

I don't know what to
make of you, Lawrence.

You've either very clever, or
you're bloody stupid.

But I tell you one thing.

I will never give Yonoi any
information about officers...

or armaments.
You understand that?

And I will never resign as
commander of this camp.

You can tell that to Yonoi.
Never!

Bloody hell!
It's an inspection!

Don't waste the food.
Keep eating it.

I'll take the responsibility.
And keep singing.

Rock of Ages,
cleft for me

Let me hide
Myself in Thee

Let the water
And the Blood

Come on now...

From Thy riven side which
Flow'd Be of sin the

For God's sake get those bloody
flowers off De Jong's bed!

No, leave those on.

I will inspect all of you to see.
You scum!

You're not eating, are you?

If you've got anything
hidden away in here...

They've all got the same thing!

Talk! Damn it!
Who brought them in here?

What the hell are these flowers?

He ate it!

Are you crazy?

Well I've tried the "Manju".
And I've tried the flowers.

And I think the flowers taste better.

You think you can resist,
you bastard?

Stand up!

He was eating maju cakes
and flowers!

Stop it!

Shut up!

Shut up!

Lawrence, what were they singing?

They're practicing for Christmas.
There's only a week left.

Liar.
It's for a funeral!

Who do you think you are?
Are you an evil spirit?

Yes, and one of yours I hope.

Take him away.

He's not an evil spirit.

He's a human being.

Forget your superstitions.

This radio was found
in the infirmary.

- Who is it?
- Give me the key.

I can't, but I'll go with you.

- Captain's orders.
- Isn't he coming tonight?

- He comes here?
- Every night.

- What for?
- Patrol, of course.

- Give me the key!
- Stop it!

You bastard!

Lawrence, we're going walkies.

Now listen, we're getting out of here!
In my shoulder.

Jack look, we can't...

The tube line doesn't come this far.

Everything's all right. Yonoi
gave me a Persian rug.

It's all right for you.

I can't get my legs to work.

Do you mind if I take the guard?
He's a lot lighter.

This is quite ridiculous.

I presume you've come
for your carpet.

Why don't you fight me? If you
defeat me, you will be free.

I'll shoot him.

I think he's taken a bit of
a shine to you.

Take them back to their cells.

Please forgive me, Captain.

I intended from the beginning to pay
for this unauthorized act with my life.

Can you commit seppuku
with just your left hand?

Why did you try to kill him?

Captain, that man is a devil
who's trying to destroy your spirit.

How very straight you sit!
I'm very impressed with you!

I'd sit even straighter if my
legs hadn't been wrecked by your thugs.

My batman. He committed
harakiri last night.

The government doesn't pay a
death benefit in cases of suicide.

Sergeant Hara has advised me
to treat the death...

as a death in action.

This is my batman's funeral ceremony.

How very thoughtful of Sergeant Hara.

In your case, Sergeant Hara's
thoughtfulness means that...

your wife will receive a pension
from British Army.

You awful bastard!

Sit down!

This morning I put my seal on
Hara's recommendation.

It has gone to Batavia.
We'll get their answer quite soon.

It's only a formality.

Once the papers arrive, we can
put you to death.

Well that should please
Sergeant Hara.

You brought the radio
into the camp.

You know that is not true.

Not true?

If you didn't do it, who did?

We must punish someone.

But why?

Would you rather punish the wrong man...

than see the crime itself got
unsolved and unpunished?

Yes.

You mean I'm to die because
you think if there's a crime...

then it must be punished?

And it doesn't matter
who is punished?

You're not by any chance a
Gilbert & Sullivan fan are you?

What?

No. You're not very funny really.

I see.

So I'm to die to preserve
your sense of order.

Yes. You understand, Lawrence.

You must die for me.

I understand.
But I won't die for you!

Should I have lied, Sergeant Hara?

Should I have said I brought
the radio into the camp?

Sergeant Hara!

Enough!

It's your gods.

It's your bloody awful stinking gods.

They made you what you are.

May they rot in whatever filthy
hell they came from!

Damn them! Damn your fucking gods!

Take him back to his cell!

Wait!

What will happen to Major Celliers?

That is one of your business.

Oh you wouldn't execute
Major Celliers...

for a crime like bringing a
wireless into a ward.

Your friend was a
disappointment to me.

Do you want to see him
before you die?

Inside!

What happened in there?

Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.

Something's changed.

I read it all wrong.

Do you think you've had it?

What? What?

Do you think you've had it?

Bloody radio!

Yonoi said something strange.

He said:
"I'm disappointed in your friend."

What is wrong with
them, Lawrence?

I don't know.

They were a nation of
anxious people.

And they could do
nothing individually.

So they went mad, en masse.

God I wish they'd stop hitting me.

I don't want to hate any
individual Japanese.

What's your Christian name
by the way, Lawrence?

John.

John Lawrence.

Good night, John Lawrence.

What's up John?

I was dreaming.

I was dreaming about this woman.

Christ, sounds like she cut it off.

I only met her twice...

I met her only twice.

Just before the fall of Singapore.

The streets were just
packed with people.

Everybody was trying to get out.
They'd all gone mad.

The hotels were packed.
Everybody was screaming and shouting.

And there was this woman...

who was different from
all the rest really.

She didn't seem to be frightened.

I was frightened.

We talked about the war
and she kept saying...

"Tell me the truth. What's the truth?
I want to know the truth."

Bloody silly question, really.

We arranged to have breakfast
together the next morning.

And would you believe it?
I was whipped off.

The attack had started.
Japanese landed.

Anyway I got back to the hotel
a few days later...

and would you believe it?

She was still there.

She was standing in exactly
the same place...

that I'd left her.

It was as if she hadn't move
since I walked away.

Like I'd run across the street for
a packet of cigaretes.

I don't think I want to talk about
this anymore really.

Jack are you there?

Yes I suppose so.

What's the matter?

The past, again and again.

You've got me at it now, John.

Who is she? Your turn in
the confessional.

'Fraid I've not had many romantic
interludes of great importance.

My experience lies in the
field of betrayal.

Ride, ride through the day

Ride through the moonlight

Ride, ride through the night

For far in the distance
Burns the fire

For someone who
Was waited long

How do you find the time to
compose these songs?

While you're at school.

Lead us Heavently Father,
Lead us

O'er the world's
Tempestuous sea

Guard us, guide us,
Keep us, feed us

For we have no help
But Thee

Yet possessing every blessing,
If our God our Father be

Listen! They're a two
full notes off!

Savior, breathe forgiveness
O'er us

All our weakness
Thou dost know

- They're after me.
- But why?

- Remember last Sunday? I laughed at them.
- I laughed, too!

They're after me! They hate me!
They like you.

Don't worry. I won't let them touch you.
You walk straight ahead and go on home.

Don't look back no matter what!
Understand?

Do what I told you!

Be brave.

Hey, hunchback!

Get out of the way!

Don't run!

All right! You asked for it!

Hey stop it, you boys!
What an earth do you think you're doing!

Are you all right?

You brought the pastor!
Why did you have to interfere?

I told you what to do!
Why didn't you go home like I said?

- I'm sorry.
- No, you're not.

Stop crying.

You hate me, too!

My brother was scared out of
his skin when the time came...

for him to go to school.

I was in the sixth form,
top of my class...

and head of my house.

Even so my brother lived every
day in absolute terror...

of being revealed...

Tomorrow's the initiation.
Any exemptions?

One chap's got a weak heart. But he's got
a doctor's certificate.

I've got on who's blind as a bat.
He can't even pee straight.

- You've got a young brother in your house haven't you?
- Yes, I have.

- What about him?
- Well, what about him?

- I was merely wondering if he was...
- He's alright. He's perfectly all right.

Forgive me, Celliers...

But if there's any reason why you'd
want your brother excused...

It's awfully decent of you,
but there's no reason. Honestly.

I knew my brother was
waiting for me.

But I couldn't conscience the
thought of the whole school...

setting eyes on his back.
It would reflect on me...

I couldn't bear that anything
related to me was not of the best.

I asked the science master
to let me stay after class...

to make preparations for the
experiments the next day.

Why was he born so beautiful?

Why was he born at all?

He's no bloody use to anyone

He's no bloody use at all

Come on chaps!

- What can you do?
- I hear he can sing.

Oh he's one of those, is he?

Come on sing!

Sing, Sing, Sing.
Sing. Sing. Sing.

Ride, ride through the day

Ride, ride through the night

For far in the distance
Burns the fire

For someone who
Has waited long

Jack, help me!

So how did it go today?

You mean you didn't see?

No. I was in the science
laboratory all afternoon.

I had to finish a job for the science master.
I've only just finished, in fact.

I see.

My brother never sang
another note... ever.

He took over our father's
farm in due course.

The last time I saw him was
at his wedding.

Over the years, I became,
you might say...

a haunted person.

I really wanted to see him again.
I never did.

I was 32, eligible bachelor...

a reasonably successful lawyer
and... absolutely nothing.

When war broke out, God,
I embraced it.

With some inexplicable sense
of relief and the kind...

of enthusiasm I hadn't shown for
anything for... I don't know how long.

You should have joined the
Foreign Legion, Jack.

It would have been
an easier life.

That's the last thing I want.

- Here comes the milkman now.
- Two pints.

Shouldn't we order an extra one.
It's Christmas remember?

Heavens. Christmas, already?
Well, it was lovely chatting but I really must fly.

It's not you.
They've come for me!

How is it John you're always wrong?

- The prisoners, sir.
- Enter.

So, Sergeant Hara,
you're human after all.

What?

Sergeant Hara,
you're human after all.

Lawrence-san,
do you know Father Christmas?

What is he saying to us?

Yes, Hara-san.

Father Christmas

means Santa Claus.

Tonight I'm Father Christmas.

I'm Father Christmas!

He thinks he's Santa Claus.

Father. Father Christmas.

Entering!

You can go back with him.

You're both free.
He's pissed as a newt.

Merry Christmas.

Thank you.

Merry Christmas, Lawrence.
Merry Christmas.

Bonkers.

Sergeant Hara
with the POW representatives.

All representatives present, sir.

- I released him last night.
- What?

Further investigation revealed
that the radio was smuggled in

by Zhang in Block Seven,
who confessed under interrogation.

I had him executed immediately.

I was mistaken to accuse Lawrence.

Why didn't you report it?

I also released Jack Celliers.

Celliers?
Without my permission?

Sir, I was a little drunk.

But actually I don't believe
either of them would do us harm.

And them becoming martyrs
is not in our best interest.

I'll accept the consequences
of my actions.

Captain Yonoi...

Whatever happened to your
idea to replace me...

with Major Celliers?

Shut up, sir.

Where is your experts here in the camp?

- There are none here, sir.
- Not one among 600 men?

Do you think you can get away
with such as obvious lie?

I'm told it is the japanese
way to lie, sir.

Very well! All prisioners
on parade in five minutes!

Dismissed!

All of them, I said.
Everyone!

Hara...

I'm sending half the prisoners
to Haruku to build an airstrip.

They leave in three days.
Do you want to be in charge?

As punishment for today,

you're confined to quarters
until your departure

without sake.

No stretchers! Make them walk!

Captain! That's against
the Geneva Convention!

Those are sick men!

Idiot!

You bastards aren't sick!

You're faking!
All you bastards are faking!

You're not sick!

You're faking!
You're not sick!

Captain Yanoi.

He's dead!

You! Get over here!

You...

you and you...

Come here! Now!
Come here!

As a representative of the
British Air Force how...

many experts in weapons and guns
do you have in your group?

None, sir!

I'll kill you!

You! Go back!
Go back!

Go back! Go back!

Stop!

I am not as sentimental
as Captain Yonoi.

Things will be different now.

Detail...

Attention!

Detail will advance by the left.
Quick march.

Understand them do you, Lawrence?

If I were you, I would commit harakiri!

I'm pleased to see you.
Really Jack.

I wanted to come.

Don't apologize.

But I've wronged you, badly.

Help me water these things.

Look, I need to talk with you.

Remember this one?

You know I don't.

It flowers once every
five years. That's all.

I'll be back before it flowers again.

Cross my heart.

Let's go back to the house.

Ride, ride through the day

Ride through the moonlight

Ride, ride through the night

For far in the distance
Burns the fire

For someone who
Has waited long

I knew you would come,
Mr. Lawrence.

- You've learned English.
- Yes very little. Please?

I very nearly didn't get your message.

It's tomorrow morning.

Well, if it was up to me...

I'd release you today, send
you back to your family.

Thank you.
I'm ready to die.

I don't understand.
My crimes were...

no different from any
other soldier's.

You're the victim of men who
think that they're right...

just as one day you
and Captain Yonoi...

...believed absolutely that
you were right.

And the truth is, of course,
that nobody's right.

Do you remember Jack Celliers?

Strange. I dreamed of him last night.

Did you really?

Captain Yonoi gave me a lock
of Jack Celliers hair...

and he asked me to take it to
his village in Japan.

And dedicate it to a shrine.

It's sad.

That he was executed after the war.

It was as if Celliers,
by his death...

sowed a seed in Yonoi...

that we might all share
by its growth.

Do you remember that Christmas?

Yes.

It was a good Christmas, wasn't it?

It was a wonderful Christmas.
You were drunk.

May I go on and on being drunk.

Sake is wonderful.

Thank you. Father Christmas.
Thank you.

There are times when victory
is very hard to take.

Good bye. Hara-san.

God bless you.

Lawrence!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas,
Mr. Lawrence!

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