True Story: Lady Ends Up In A Japanese War Camp Prison For European Women & Faces Inhuman Treatment

When their ship is bombed as they leave Singapore on the eve of World War II, a group of women from different countries are captured and must face great challenges to survive.

[michellezevenaar]

Unfortunately this really happened. I knew a man that was a child in one of these camps. He told me stories about life in the camps. The Japanese soldiers trusted the children to bring food to the guards.... he took the opportunity to mix in a little vomit from the people that were sick to get the soldiers sick. Many died from that.
I also had a colleague who was 1/4 Japanese, her grandmother was in the camp's. They really did some horrible things to their prisoners.

[ParallelUniverseTechnology]

Aug 24, 1945. Japanese Colonel: "It was hard journey that we took together and we overcome many differences and difficulties. But as a result we became great team and learned to respect each other. Thank you for your hard work, everybody is free!"

[catlamp]

I remember seeing this as a child. For some reason, I was unusually drawn to anything WW2 related. But this movie stuck with and disturbed me the most out of all the eras documentaries, docuseries and movies.

[kiethmoreland]

Paradise Road (1997), was an outstanding movie. It was difficult for me to understand why it was not more recognized, but I don't move in Hollywood circles. There was one scene not discussed, which I thought was very poignant. Where the sergeant played by Clyde Kusatsu takes Glenn Close off to a secluded spot. I sat there, anticipating a sexual assault. Instead, he sings to her, just the two of them out in the jungle; as though he wishes to convey his humanity, while the other guards choose to be cruel.

[idachau]

This looks like the British tv series Tenko, many years ago??

[morganstewart-kpdy]

My uncle was a survivor of this inhuman behavior earl burchard of prisoner in the Philippines and a Japanese prison camp!

[mbar]

This story is very similar to the 1980s drama series Tenko.

[pacoo]

Now I understand why the Japanese sided with the Nazis.

[中橋大橋]

After the war ended in 1945, Japan accepted the
Tokyo Trials. If that wasn't the end of it, it would be revisionism.

[andykerr]

Wow, what a summary! 👍
Maybe Waterloo in 10 minutes? 😂

[robert]

WOW.
Good Vid, good voice, soft music track and description [recapping]. Al very First rate.
BUT, the film is seems to be a copy of 'WOMEN of VALOR'-1985. I loved the Women of Valor' and I really prefer the ending in WoV, that had Stars Glenn Close, Frances McDormand and Pauline Collins sort of a weak PR ending. Perhaps it was the cast, in 1986 Susan Sarandon, Kristy McNichol and Alberta Watson stared, then the film... went away.
Thak you for the recap and the memories.

[rageagainstmachineo]

" I sing for your food " very touching old movie. 😢

[NealWeston-dk]

The film was mainly based the book written by Australian nurse Sister Betty Jeffrey called "white coolies". Another nurse in the camp was Sister Vivian Bullwinkle who was the sole survivor of the massacre on the beach at Banka Island, where women survivors from the boat sinking, including more than 20 Australian Nurses were marched into the sea and machine gunned in the back.

[carlydynna]

Very annoying you don’t give the name of the movie

[GameDjeenie]

I'm willing to bet not even cavewomen were treated that way. What is the point of war except suffering ??

[stephenjohnston]

What an incredible cast! Off to find & watch this now, cheers.

[linaburon]

Y we never se that movie on Youtube and on Tubi ????

[onetruekeeper]

The Japanese military did not want to surrender to the Americans even if it meant total defeat and humiliation. The emperor of Japan decided to declare a surrender on the nationwide radio broadcast but some army factions planned to assassinate him to prevent him from declaring a surrender but they were stopped by Imperial guards. The Japanese violated the Geneva Convention regarding the treatment of prisoners. Every officer and soldier in the Japanese Imperial military should have received collective punishment which is hanging for their war crimes.

[cosmicreef]

Being evil is not an instinct!
Being hungry does not equals evil.
Also there is no such thing as "human instinct". We are ALL animals.

[h.d.tjayasanka]

Background Music - Away by Patrick Patrikios.