Blood Oath (1990)
Where does war end and murder begin?
108 min
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
- Release date
- July 4, 1991
- Country of origin
- Australia
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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
- Toshi Shioya as Lt. Tanaka
- 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
- Sôkyû 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
Crew
- Stephen Wallace · Director
- Denis Whitburn · Writer
- Brian A. Williams · Writer
- Charles Waterstreet · Producer
- Denis Whitburn · Producer
- Brian A. Williams · Producer
- David McHugh · Composer
- Russell Boyd · Cinematographer
- Nicholas Beauman · Editor
- Alison Barrett · Casting director
- Nobuaki Murooka · Casting director
- Bernard Hides · Production designer