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following comment by Pen on this page.  "Historical accuracy? My
father was a Japanese prisoner of war working on the railway. He
watched this film avidly every time it came on TV. He said that
it conveyed well, "for a film", the actuality of being a
prisoner. The brutality of course, but also the tension between
the longing for the satisfaction of building the railway well
and the imperative to do it badly. He liked the ending
too...even if that didn't quite happen."  Please state your
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