THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH Official Trailer (2025)

Burma Railway in 1943 and across the Pacific during World War II, charts the cruelty of war, the tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love, as seen through the eyes of an Australian doctor and prisoner of war.

THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH Official Trailer (2025)
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[hiramabiff]

When I was a young lad my mums oldest brother came to live with us in London. As a kid I would copy his limped walk and never understood why mum made such a fuss over him when he would cry and my dad would get angry at us for laughing at him. He was 6ft + and a gentle man who didn't say much apart from telling us tales about his life in Rhodesia when we went fishing along the canal. It was not until after he died that we learned of the horrific tortures he went through as a POW of the Japanese. The limp I so readily took the piss out was caused by him being beaten so much around the legs and a infection that ate away to the bone nearly causing it to be amputated. I cannot turn the clock back because of my regrets as a ignorant child but I proudly tell my grandson's about " Uncle Harold " and his photo and service medals hang as pride of place on my wall in our front room over my desk. My son promises to do the same when I am gone. " Least We Forget

[petedudson]

Wow this looks like it just may live up to the book. Visited the Thai Burma railway a few years back after reading the book. The Japanese war crimes in WW2 and the Sino-Japanese war get overlooked.

[manofwar]

Terrible but true story.
My Grandmother (RIP), was always concerned and asked about my time in the ADF, and told me of one of several of her brothers that served in WW2. He was in Thailand building the rail line there, survived to come home, and die a very short time after. He told my Nanna, he just wanted to die at home, and not let the Japanese have the satisfaction of killing him.

[amac]

I think the true scale of the atrocities of what the Japenese did get overlooked by the European theater of war. Truely despicable what they did.

[McBurnside]

Hopefully they show the full extent of Japanese war crimes. Movies like Bridge over the river Kwai did not.

[Twofall-mg]

My Grandfather was captured in Java and spent two years in a camp. He was then put on a ship, the Tamahoku Maru which was bound for Nagasaki. They never made it. The ship was torpedoed by the USS Tang. Hundreds died including my Grandfather. I joined a far east prisoner of war club and was put in touch with a gentleman who was on that same ship and survived, I spoke with him on the phone and he said for twelve hours he was free, as he floated amongst the survivors. I told him about my Grandfather who was 36 at the time. He said it was harder for the older guys. He was 19 when he was in the water.

[Trollsunderthebridgez]

My grandfather's uncle disappeared in the pacific rip so many of our grandfather's died needlessly, if they could see what's happening today I doubt they would fight

[hannotn]

I used to have a copy of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Basho, a Japanese haiku poet. It's so long ago I don't remember the content that well, other than the brevity of what he wrote and the beauty he managed to contain within it. Contrasting that with Japanese conduct during WWII is a brilliant literary conceit.

[GR-jwns]

Ciarán Hinds is a fantastic Irish actor. Never a bad performance and I presume this will be the same.

[firestopper]

Filmmakers are just screwing with us now; to see how dark, lowest light film they can make that people will still watch. 👎🏻🙄🤷🏻‍♂️

[DavidMeikle-eifr]

A friend of mine's father was a POW in a Japanese camp, he never spoke about it

[DannyBoy-jykq]

I went to hellfire pass. I would’ve lasted an afternoon at the best. These lads endured in conditions none of us can fathom. There isn’t an adjective to describe my awe for them. Hero’s.

[raylanbenjamin]

It makes me sad that Australia has lost so much of the character that made these men, and their country, great.

[adepttotheart]

Nice touch on the trailer editing, bound to be sweet series 🤌

[dmayres]

I'm reading the book at the moment, very much looking forward to seeing this.

[snigie]

They went through this so that one day we'd give the country up voluntarily.

[frederickirchhoff]

For those who can't wait, I recommend Railway Man with Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Hiroyuki Sanada. Great picture!

[pamelastorer]

In all the plaudits and comments, both in praise of this movie, and critical of it, I'm sad, almost ashamed for Australia, that this was first presented to the public in the true story of the experiences in a Japanese war camp and on the same Burma Railway of Australian author Russell Braddon and doesnt rate a single mention. It seems forgotten. "The Naked Island" got a rather lost in the river of PoW books from English prisoners of the Germans in WWII, but the experiences of Aussies in Japan was even worse.
Yet, as with this novel, Braddon emphasised the value of mateship among the men, the unstinting help they gave each other, and how the misery of life made such a value of otherwise small things; he once picked a blossom from a frangipani tree and kept it by him, valuing it's beauty and scent.
His brilliant sequel to that book "End of a Hate" is now out of print and hard to find. I'm hoping I can get one of the last copies. Yet I dont hear his name, or his books, being spoken in all the words coming out of Aus; not of him or his writing. Great shame.

[peasandcarrots]

The man who lived behind us was a WW2 Combat Veteran Pacific - He drank and he frequently screamed at his family, loudest yelling I have heard to date. As a kid, I was afraid. He eventually stopped drinking and split with his wife, but I am sure he damaged his children.

[maxpaschke]

Dose anyone know the name of the music in this trailer?