Death-2-trolls We all know about Nuremberg, the Nazi leadership was sentenced to death, but what about their allies the Japanese Empire? To some historians, the Japanese POW was on par with the Nazi's Death camp where most Allied POWs never made it out.The movie Prisoners of the Sun shows one of the few court where following orders is just as bad as murdering. Just because he is following orders, he is still held accountable. George Taki plays the sly Admiral who manage to wheeze his way without admitting guilt. Lt. Tanaka who in fact was a Christian, but let the loyalty of his country cloud his judgment. Captain Ikeuchi is the savage camp commandant and no doubt was the sole person behind the war crimes.The movie itself was great acting with nothing you could see except are facts, most was real emotions I'm sure from the actor especially playing a heavy role here. Now on to the entertainment value, there is none. This movie itself is a historical docudrama and there is no kissing sex or any of that garbage here. The purpose is to open a dark window of what happened in the Japanese death camps that we know so little about. Even the Nazi death camps are very well documented compared to here.I recommend seeing this movie not for its entertainment value, but a history lesson of what really happen and how men can become monsters. It is a history to learn so that we don't repeat it again.

Michael Neumann Bryan Brown portrays a military lawyer prosecuting the garrison of a Japanese POW camp where 800 Aussie soldiers were killed during World War Two. Of course the whole notion of a war crimes trial is totally ridiculous, but director Stephen Wallace ignores the built-in ambiguities of the post-war legal inquisition to offer, instead, a holy crusade against the enemies of freedom, with enough courtroom histrionics to make Perry Mason blush: emotional outbursts; surprise witnesses; flashback re-enactments and so forth. The script makes no attempt to understand the enemy: most of the Japanese are inscrutable monsters, led by George Takei, who gets star billing with a five-minute walk-on role, presumably to lure the unwary Trekkie into seeing the film. The other villains are (predictably) the American overlords, represented by Terry O'Quinn, wearing sinister Douglas Macarthur-style sunglasses and making ominous references to a New World Order. The film is based on a true story, but the subject of war crimes and punishment deserves a deeper, more substantial treatment than this handsome, high-minded piece of fluff.

Michael O'Keefe This 1990 Aurstralian feature is based on the real-life tribunal in 1945 held to investigate atrocities committed during WWII. At an interment camp, the Japanese tortured and slaughtered 1100 Australian soldiers. Three hundred survived, nearly most scarred, suicidal and suffering post traumatic disorder. This horrific event went relatively unknown until a mass grave of decapitated corpses was found. Captain Cooper(Bryan Brown)is chosen to prosecute Vice-Admiral Baron Takahashi(George Takei) commander of the Japanese on the island of Ambon. Who ordered who to do what? Dark story with graphic images. The strong cast includes: Terry O'Quinn, Toshi Shioya, Deborah Unger, Jason Donovan, Kazuhiro Muroyama and a young Russell Crowe.

bbrown-3 Bryan Brown is a lawyer prosecuting Japanese Officers and Soldiers for war crimes committed on Australian prisoners.However, all his witnesses are either dead or have been sent home and all the records have been destroyed.This is a very absorbing video with good acting from everyone.Makes you wonder if there are ever any winners in war or does one side just lose more than the other.