
Blood Oath
- Where does war end and murder begin?
- 1990-07-26
- Drama, War
- Tetsu Watanabe, Kazuhiro Muroyama, David Argue, John Polson, Bryan Brown, Sokyu Fujita, Nicholas Eadie, Terry O'Quinn, Deborah Kara Unger, John Bach, Russell Crowe, Toshi Shioya, George Takei, Ray Barrett, John Clarke, Jason Donovan, Yuichiro Senga
- 1 h. 48 min.
- 5.4/10
- 9
- Australia
- Blood Oath, Siege, Sovereign Pictures, Village Roadshow Entertainment
Overview:
On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War Crimes Tribunal to pass judgement on the Japanese men and officers who ran the Ambon camp. In an added twist, a high ranking Japanese admiral is implicated, and politics become involoved with justice as American authorities in Japan lobby for the Admiral's release. Written by Anthony Hughes