Blood Oath
Drama
War
Where does war end and murder begin?
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
1990-07-26
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Cast
Bryan Brown as Captain Cooper
George Takei as Vice-Admiral Baron Takahashi
Terry O'Quinn as Major Beckett
John Bach as Major Roberts
Deborah Kara Unger as Sister Littell
John Clarke as Sheedy
Russell Crowe as Lt. Corbett
John Polson as Private Jimmy Fenton
Tetsu Watanabe as Captain Ikeuchi
Nicholas Eadie as Sgt. Keenan
Jason Donovan as Private Talbot
Sokyu Fujita as Mr. Matsugae
Ray Barrett as President of the Bench
Kazuhiro Muroyama as Lt. Noburo Kamura
David Argue as Flt. Lt. Eddy Fenton
Donal Gibson as Corporal Patterson
Shane McNamara as Major Roberts' Aide