WEBVTT 00:00:00.068 --> 00:00:20.068 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:00:51.092 --> 00:00:53.010 At the beginning of time 00:00:54.387 --> 00:00:55.929 the clock struck one. 00:00:57.557 --> 00:01:00.267 A drop of dew and the clock struck two. 00:01:03.438 --> 00:01:04.980 From the dew grew a tree 00:01:06.483 --> 00:01:08.317 and the clock struck three. 00:01:10.653 --> 00:01:12.237 Then the tree made a door 00:01:14.157 --> 00:01:15.824 and the clock struck four. 00:01:17.869 --> 00:01:19.119 Then man came alive 00:01:21.498 --> 00:01:23.248 and the clock struck five. 00:01:26.586 --> 00:01:27.836 Count not 00:01:29.130 --> 00:01:30.255 waste not 00:01:31.674 --> 00:01:33.217 the hours on the clock. 00:01:35.678 --> 00:01:38.138 Behold I stand at the door and knock. 00:02:33.361 --> 00:02:35.529 Is that a new Bradshaw's, Eric? 00:02:37.073 --> 00:02:40.367 Or one of your world famous collection of out of date railway timetables? 00:02:44.247 --> 00:02:45.873 I have a small problem... 00:02:49.752 --> 00:02:53.338 which I suspect this gathering might find interesting. 00:02:56.968 --> 00:02:58.260 Last Thursday 00:02:58.761 --> 00:03:01.680 I was returning from a book auction in Chester 00:03:02.004 --> 00:03:04.285 and, learning of a delay on the Manchester-Edinburgh line, 00:03:04.309 --> 00:03:08.270 found it necessary to make a rapid adjustment to my itinerary, 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:12.274 leaving me just three minutes to change platforms at Crewe. 00:03:44.432 --> 00:03:46.600 Tickets from Crewe. 00:03:47.352 --> 00:03:48.727 Tickets from Crewe. 00:03:50.271 --> 00:03:52.314 You're on the wrong train, sir. This is for Glasgow. 00:03:52.398 --> 00:03:53.899 The Edinburgh train... It's delayed. I thought 00:03:53.983 --> 00:03:55.943 if I got your train as far as Carstairs I ought to be 00:03:56.027 --> 00:03:58.403 in time to catch the Manchester-Edinburgh on it's way up. 00:03:59.656 --> 00:04:01.990 That should work. Enjoy your journey, sir. 00:04:03.076 --> 00:04:04.785 Tickets from Crewe. 00:04:05.411 --> 00:04:08.664 I could have done with you this morning, in Taunton. 00:04:10.583 --> 00:04:12.793 Straight forward enough, surely? 00:04:12.961 --> 00:04:16.880 Train down to Bristol Temple Meads... The Bristol train was cancelled. 00:04:17.048 --> 00:04:18.928 Well in that case you could take it across to... 00:04:18.967 --> 00:04:21.426 A friend gave me a lift. 00:04:24.764 --> 00:04:26.807 I see. And he gave me a timetable. 00:04:26.891 --> 00:04:28.600 Look at this... 00:04:28.685 --> 00:04:31.853 He marked all of the interesting things on the map. 00:04:34.732 --> 00:04:35.899 Did you know... 00:04:36.567 --> 00:04:38.819 Warrington was famous for vodka? 00:04:42.615 --> 00:04:44.574 It's also the birthplace of George Formby. 00:04:45.827 --> 00:04:47.995 Hmm... is it really? 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:50.330 Most people assume it was Wigan. 00:04:51.165 --> 00:04:52.374 Or Formby. 00:04:54.585 --> 00:04:56.378 But it was Warrington. 00:05:02.367 --> 00:05:05.447 You know, with all due respect to your friend, if all he's mentioned is vodka, 00:05:05.471 --> 00:05:08.974 he's really only scratched the surface of Warrington. 00:05:09.851 --> 00:05:11.018 The Black Prince. 00:05:11.311 --> 00:05:12.978 Remember the Black Prince? 00:05:13.354 --> 00:05:15.314 Had all his armour made there. 00:05:15.398 --> 00:05:18.358 Warrington was really the only place to go if you wanted a suit of armour. 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:21.361 A sort of Saville Row in steel. 00:05:26.117 --> 00:05:27.242 Goodness! 00:05:27.535 --> 00:05:30.454 Maybe we should get off, take a look around. 00:05:31.956 --> 00:05:36.001 Well if think Warrington's interesting, you wait till we get to Preston. 00:05:46.220 --> 00:05:47.220 Lancaster, 00:05:48.723 --> 00:05:50.390 known as the Hanging Town. 00:05:51.809 --> 00:05:55.812 Lancaster Assizes hanged more people than any court in the land, 00:05:55.938 --> 00:05:57.356 except for London. 00:05:59.859 --> 00:06:01.318 That's Carnforth. 00:06:01.944 --> 00:06:04.654 That's where they filmed Brief Encounter, apparently. 00:06:04.822 --> 00:06:06.582 You're too young to remember that, of course. 00:06:06.824 --> 00:06:10.744 Well my Aunt went to see it with a girlfriend and a couple of sailors, 00:06:10.828 --> 00:06:12.496 and she told me that... 00:06:12.997 --> 00:06:14.998 whenever the actress... 00:06:15.083 --> 00:06:16.958 Celia Johnson. Celia Johnson... 00:06:17.043 --> 00:06:19.753 got a bit tearful, the sailors would shout, 00:06:19.837 --> 00:06:21.713 "Come on, Trevor. Give her one!" 00:06:24.634 --> 00:06:25.634 Sorry. 00:06:26.260 --> 00:06:27.677 I've gone too far. 00:06:28.763 --> 00:06:31.473 Promise I'll behave better from now on. 00:06:37.313 --> 00:06:40.565 I've never been to the Highlands before, so suddenly... um... 00:06:40.691 --> 00:06:44.319 well finding myself single again, so to speak, 00:06:44.404 --> 00:06:46.863 I... I thought I'd like to see them. 00:06:47.448 --> 00:06:50.617 So I'm going to go up as far as Mallaig by train and then I'm catching 00:06:50.701 --> 00:06:54.079 the coach to Inverness and coming down the other side. 00:06:54.163 --> 00:06:55.288 What do you think? 00:06:55.665 --> 00:06:57.416 The West Coast is extraordinarily beautiful. 00:06:57.500 --> 00:06:59.543 You might well fall in love with it. 00:07:01.003 --> 00:07:03.630 And if I were to fall in love, what then? 00:07:06.217 --> 00:07:08.301 Well instead of a coach to Inverness, 00:07:08.386 --> 00:07:11.430 you might consider taking the line back to Tyndrum and changing for Oban. 00:07:11.848 --> 00:07:14.266 And from there you can get any number of boat trips: 00:07:14.350 --> 00:07:15.725 Iona, Staffa. 00:07:17.353 --> 00:07:18.728 It's very romantic. 00:07:22.024 --> 00:07:23.316 Are you romantic? 00:07:29.991 --> 00:07:32.075 I have to be in Edinburgh... 00:07:33.244 --> 00:07:34.369 by Wednesday. 00:07:36.456 --> 00:07:38.957 Carstairs, now approaching. 00:07:39.041 --> 00:07:41.376 Carstairs. Carstairs. 00:07:44.589 --> 00:07:45.839 So it is. 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:57.350 It was very nice to meet you. 00:07:59.562 --> 00:08:01.438 You were an unexpected bonus. 00:08:04.108 --> 00:08:05.108 Well. 00:08:06.027 --> 00:08:07.110 Thank you again. 00:08:23.753 --> 00:08:25.003 And so you see, 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:29.591 I am forced to the unlikely conclusion, 00:08:30.676 --> 00:08:32.594 that I've fallen in love. 00:08:40.478 --> 00:08:41.478 So? 00:08:43.064 --> 00:08:44.814 What are you going to do? 00:08:49.946 --> 00:08:52.113 Would you excuse me for a moment? 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:57.744 There are only two trains from Inverness to Edinburgh on Wednesdays... 00:09:01.249 --> 00:09:04.960 Edinburgh Waverley, this is Edinburgh Waverley. 00:09:27.942 --> 00:09:29.025 Good afternoon. 00:09:30.903 --> 00:09:32.529 Good afternoon. Ah... 00:09:33.114 --> 00:09:35.824 This is a surprise. What a coincidence. 00:09:37.910 --> 00:09:39.995 Are you catching this train? 00:09:40.496 --> 00:09:41.788 Yes, I am. 00:09:42.498 --> 00:09:45.041 Well it's just that it terminates here. 00:09:47.336 --> 00:09:49.713 It's not entirely a coincidence. 00:09:52.425 --> 00:09:54.509 It's not entirely a surprise. 00:09:57.013 --> 00:09:59.556 I'm not really used to entertaining, as you'll see. 00:10:04.270 --> 00:10:05.562 What are you doing? 00:10:05.980 --> 00:10:07.522 I was just going to give it a stir. 00:10:08.149 --> 00:10:09.190 Good heavens. 00:10:09.275 --> 00:10:12.068 But the bottom of the pan's going to burn... Sit down. 00:10:12.153 --> 00:10:13.361 So masterful. 00:10:17.450 --> 00:10:19.784 Masterful but wrong. We shall see. 00:10:20.995 --> 00:10:23.455 I might nip out for a Brillo pad for the burn marks 00:10:23.539 --> 00:10:25.165 on the bottom of the pan. Don't move. 00:10:26.042 --> 00:10:27.584 Why not? 00:10:29.170 --> 00:10:30.920 Because I'm looking at you. 00:10:51.859 --> 00:10:53.026 Perfect. 00:11:04.455 --> 00:11:06.373 You're making quite a meal of this. 00:11:06.457 --> 00:11:08.291 That was the general idea. 00:11:10.628 --> 00:11:12.295 You know, I was wondering. 00:11:22.223 --> 00:11:24.849 I've never kissed a man with a moustache before. 00:11:24.934 --> 00:11:26.142 Hmm... 00:11:26.477 --> 00:11:30.397 And I don't think I'm going to kiss a man with a moustache again. 00:11:32.733 --> 00:11:34.150 Hmm. 00:11:36.445 --> 00:11:38.988 And if the man removed the moustache? 00:11:40.199 --> 00:11:41.908 Yes, that would do nicely. 00:12:32.585 --> 00:12:35.837 I'm just going to keep looking into those lovely brown eyes. 00:12:37.047 --> 00:12:38.381 Why? 00:12:39.258 --> 00:12:40.508 I don't know. 00:12:44.472 --> 00:12:47.557 Takes my mind off the broken teeth and the shabby clothes. 00:12:54.023 --> 00:12:56.399 Not quite so shabby today, actually. 00:12:59.779 --> 00:13:02.405 Better get them off so I don't get confused, then. 00:13:02.490 --> 00:13:04.574 If you think that's a good idea. M-hmm. 00:13:13.083 --> 00:13:14.626 I'm so happy. 00:13:42.780 --> 00:13:44.697 Get dressed, Lomax. 00:14:43.173 --> 00:14:44.716 No, no, no. 00:14:45.968 --> 00:14:50.638 No! 00:14:51.390 --> 00:14:53.766 The war's over! Not for you, Lomax. 00:14:53.851 --> 00:14:55.435 No! No! This way, please. 00:14:58.647 --> 00:15:00.732 Please... no! 00:15:04.904 --> 00:15:06.571 Eric! Oh, God! 00:15:32.014 --> 00:15:35.433 Help us! For the love of God, someone help us! 00:15:45.653 --> 00:15:49.948 Gentlemen. 00:15:52.576 --> 00:15:54.410 You have all fought valiantly. 00:15:54.495 --> 00:15:56.663 You are a credit to your country. 00:15:56.914 --> 00:16:00.208 But I have to inform you that General Percival has decided, 00:16:00.292 --> 00:16:03.544 under the circumstances, to negotiate, as it were, 00:16:03.712 --> 00:16:04.712 a ceasefire. 00:16:06.465 --> 00:16:08.841 He's thrown in the towel, sir? What happens to us? 00:16:08.926 --> 00:16:09.676 Thorlby! 00:16:09.843 --> 00:16:12.428 We are still a fighting unit and you will do what you're told. 00:16:13.180 --> 00:16:16.808 You can start by destroying anything that might be of value to the enemy. 00:16:17.267 --> 00:16:18.643 Quickly, gentlemen. 00:16:24.525 --> 00:16:25.525 Lomax. 00:16:25.609 --> 00:16:26.776 What are you doing? 00:16:27.528 --> 00:16:29.237 Might come in handy, sir. 00:16:44.461 --> 00:16:45.628 Christ almighty. 00:17:13.323 --> 00:17:14.907 Lomax, my friend, 00:17:15.826 --> 00:17:20.038 I think we have just witnessed the fall of the British Empire. 00:17:31.050 --> 00:17:32.842 You will number off! 00:17:33.385 --> 00:17:35.261 Beginning with number one. 00:17:37.056 --> 00:17:38.139 One. 00:17:38.223 --> 00:17:39.223 Two. 00:17:39.892 --> 00:17:41.059 Three. 00:17:41.143 --> 00:17:42.143 Four. 00:17:42.853 --> 00:17:44.145 Five. 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:45.646 Six. 00:17:45.731 --> 00:17:46.731 Seven. 00:17:47.524 --> 00:17:48.733 Eight. 00:17:49.068 --> 00:17:50.443 Nine. 00:17:50.861 --> 00:17:51.861 Ten. 00:17:54.573 --> 00:17:55.573 Jack. 00:17:57.117 --> 00:17:58.117 Queen. 00:17:59.078 --> 00:18:00.078 King. 00:18:01.205 --> 00:18:02.205 Ace. 00:18:17.846 --> 00:18:18.930 Good? 00:19:15.529 --> 00:19:17.196 So what do you think? 00:19:17.573 --> 00:19:19.949 I don't want to take over completely. 00:19:22.953 --> 00:19:25.663 You're tired. Do you want a cup of tea? 00:20:13.003 --> 00:20:14.420 Eric? 00:20:37.569 --> 00:20:38.986 What have you done? 00:20:41.531 --> 00:20:44.951 I decided, on reflection, I preferred things the way they were. 00:20:45.285 --> 00:20:48.829 Eric, whatever's wrong, you can talk to me about it. 00:20:49.081 --> 00:20:50.081 Eric. 00:20:51.792 --> 00:20:56.045 Please. Never, ever try to interfere with matters that don't concern you. 00:20:58.257 --> 00:20:59.715 There's no objection, I hope? 00:21:00.634 --> 00:21:02.677 No. No, of course not. 00:21:11.061 --> 00:21:14.897 Eric? 00:21:15.065 --> 00:21:18.067 I was just wondering if you'd paid these bills. 00:22:35.562 --> 00:22:36.562 Eric? 00:22:39.983 --> 00:22:41.400 Eric. 00:23:02.047 --> 00:23:03.798 Mrs. Lomax? Mike Moffat, 00:23:03.882 --> 00:23:06.509 Northumberland Debt Recovery. Non-payment of rates. 00:23:07.052 --> 00:23:10.262 These gentlemen are here to help me. Is Mr. Lomax at home? 00:23:10.389 --> 00:23:12.139 Non-payment? That's right, madam. 00:23:12.265 --> 00:23:14.892 You may be aware we have visited on two previous occasions. 00:23:14.976 --> 00:23:16.519 No. No, I wasn't aware. Look, my husband... 00:23:16.603 --> 00:23:18.963 And those visits were made after all attempts to communicate 00:23:18.980 --> 00:23:20.940 with Mr. Lomax by post had failed. 00:23:21.024 --> 00:23:23.818 I'm sorry, I really know nothing about this. 00:23:23.985 --> 00:23:25.694 But if you could possibly leave it with me. 00:23:25.779 --> 00:23:27.780 My husband is slightly disorganised sometimes... 00:23:27.864 --> 00:23:30.408 Are you in a position to make a payment now, madam? 00:23:43.171 --> 00:23:44.588 We are authorised to enter 00:23:44.673 --> 00:23:46.393 the property and make an inventory of goods. 00:23:46.466 --> 00:23:47.925 You can't come in here. 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:51.762 Eric. No! 00:23:53.765 --> 00:23:55.015 Drop it! No, please! 00:23:55.183 --> 00:23:56.767 Drop the knife! 00:23:56.810 --> 00:23:58.060 Drop it, sir! 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:02.523 Eric! 00:24:03.150 --> 00:24:04.233 Eric, stop! 00:24:04.443 --> 00:24:06.986 Please, why won't you talk to me? 00:24:09.489 --> 00:24:10.573 Eric! 00:24:15.662 --> 00:24:17.955 Eric, we can't live like this. 00:24:22.502 --> 00:24:24.753 No, leave me. I'm fine! 00:24:56.369 --> 00:24:58.162 Fourteenth of next month, Burton. 00:24:58.246 --> 00:24:59.455 Same time. Alright. 00:24:59.539 --> 00:25:02.333 Put it in your diary. Aye, thank you Uncle. 00:25:08.423 --> 00:25:09.423 Mr. Finlay. 00:25:12.886 --> 00:25:13.969 Mrs. Lomax. 00:25:18.391 --> 00:25:20.684 I want to know what happened to Eric. 00:25:21.269 --> 00:25:23.687 You have to talk to Eric. I have. 00:25:23.772 --> 00:25:25.189 And he changes the subject... 00:25:25.273 --> 00:25:27.816 whenever we get close to... 00:25:29.736 --> 00:25:34.198 He gets as far as the fall of Singapore and then he just... he shuts down. 00:25:39.162 --> 00:25:40.496 And then he won't... 00:25:41.289 --> 00:25:44.208 he won't talk about the railway. There's... 00:25:44.417 --> 00:25:45.709 I don't know. 00:25:53.593 --> 00:25:54.760 I was a nurse. 00:25:55.387 --> 00:25:56.762 Twenty years. 00:25:58.056 --> 00:26:00.140 I've seen... a lot of suffering. 00:26:03.812 --> 00:26:06.397 You can do something if you know what's wrong. 00:26:08.275 --> 00:26:10.985 I'm sorry I can't help you play Florence Nightingale. 00:26:11.653 --> 00:26:15.990 But a lot of men went through something you can't even begin to imagine. 00:26:16.324 --> 00:26:19.827 You're going to have to let us just get on and cope with it 00:26:19.911 --> 00:26:21.161 as best we can. 00:26:21.246 --> 00:26:22.955 My husband isn't coping. 00:26:23.999 --> 00:26:25.291 He's a mess. 00:26:28.211 --> 00:26:31.463 War leaves a mark, Mrs. Lomax. 00:26:32.966 --> 00:26:36.135 But I don't believe in this code of silence that you have. 00:26:36.219 --> 00:26:37.803 I really don't. 00:26:38.888 --> 00:26:41.599 And you may be determined to stay screwed up and suffer for the rest 00:26:41.683 --> 00:26:45.853 of your life, but I don't want that for Eric. And I can't live like that. 00:26:46.771 --> 00:26:48.439 He's a wonderful man. 00:26:49.024 --> 00:26:50.024 I've seen it. 00:26:50.108 --> 00:26:52.151 I love him and I want him back. 00:27:01.578 --> 00:27:02.953 When we came home, 00:27:04.456 --> 00:27:06.081 Eric couldn't handle it. 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:10.794 So he joined the Colonial Service, 00:27:10.879 --> 00:27:13.047 and built a dam in Africa. 00:27:18.470 --> 00:27:20.971 He wrote to me saying they had a narrow gauge 00:27:21.056 --> 00:27:25.976 railway system and badly needed more engines and rolling stock. 00:27:27.187 --> 00:27:29.855 But only the Japanese had the right kind, 00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:33.025 so he was going to do without. 00:27:36.696 --> 00:27:38.572 When he came back, he'd... 00:27:39.366 --> 00:27:42.534 he'd come to these meetings and just sit there. 00:27:44.454 --> 00:27:45.871 Didn't talk at all. 00:27:47.874 --> 00:27:48.916 He did anything 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:50.584 to avoid people. 00:27:51.378 --> 00:27:55.631 Went round and round the country collecting railway memorabilia. 00:27:55.882 --> 00:27:57.633 I think that's how he met you. 00:28:05.684 --> 00:28:07.893 His whole life has been trains. 00:28:54.023 --> 00:28:55.274 Here! Here! 00:28:56.443 --> 00:28:57.735 Here! 00:28:58.945 --> 00:28:59.945 Water! 00:29:00.697 --> 00:29:01.697 Here! 00:29:07.787 --> 00:29:09.204 Here! Water, please! 00:30:00.131 --> 00:30:02.090 Fall in, men. Don't lag behind. 00:31:19.878 --> 00:31:22.546 Attention! 00:31:30.805 --> 00:31:32.097 You very lucky boys. 00:31:33.600 --> 00:31:35.017 You engineers. 00:31:35.894 --> 00:31:37.352 You here to help us. 00:31:38.730 --> 00:31:40.188 If you help good, 00:31:40.481 --> 00:31:42.691 you will have a good war here, 00:31:43.318 --> 00:31:44.943 in this good place. 00:31:45.570 --> 00:31:46.987 If you don't help us, 00:31:47.614 --> 00:31:49.740 you will go back up the line. 00:31:51.075 --> 00:31:53.535 Up the line is not a good place. 00:31:54.871 --> 00:31:57.289 Now one by one do number, please. 00:31:58.791 --> 00:32:00.042 One. Two. 00:32:00.126 --> 00:32:01.209 Three. Four. 00:32:01.294 --> 00:32:02.294 Five. Six. 00:32:02.378 --> 00:32:03.462 Seven. Eight. 00:32:03.546 --> 00:32:04.838 Nine. Ten. 00:32:07.216 --> 00:32:08.342 Eleven. 00:32:09.302 --> 00:32:10.302 Twelve. 00:32:10.803 --> 00:32:12.054 Thirteen. Fourteen. 00:32:12.138 --> 00:32:13.805 Fifteen. Who surrendered? 00:32:14.390 --> 00:32:16.516 I never surrendered. 00:32:16.684 --> 00:32:18.810 We should still be out there fighting, now. 00:32:18.895 --> 00:32:21.730 We're not fighting, are we? We're working for the Japanese. 00:32:21.814 --> 00:32:24.608 I'm not working for the bloody Japanese. 00:32:25.318 --> 00:32:26.985 We should get out of here. 00:32:27.195 --> 00:32:28.362 Organise. 00:32:28.780 --> 00:32:29.780 Fight back. 00:32:30.031 --> 00:32:31.073 Escape? 00:32:31.157 --> 00:32:32.699 There's more of us than them. 00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:35.285 We could stroll out. 00:32:35.620 --> 00:32:37.704 All of us. Calm down, Thorlby. 00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:40.082 It's easy enough to walk out. 00:32:40.875 --> 00:32:42.000 Then what? 00:32:43.002 --> 00:32:44.378 Where would you go? 00:32:45.296 --> 00:32:47.214 Well we must be somewhere. 00:32:48.383 --> 00:32:50.550 We haven't fallen off the edge of the world. 00:32:50.635 --> 00:32:52.135 Er... sir? 00:32:54.180 --> 00:32:55.681 Why don't you sit here? 00:32:56.224 --> 00:32:58.016 Well I counted four days, 00:32:58.101 --> 00:33:00.978 north, from Singapore up towards Bangkok, 00:33:01.688 --> 00:33:04.314 which would put us somewhere about here. 00:33:06.192 --> 00:33:07.484 Then we turned west. 00:33:10.154 --> 00:33:11.238 So? 00:33:13.157 --> 00:33:16.034 Well there is no railway line west of Bangkok. 00:33:16.411 --> 00:33:18.662 At least there wasn't before the war. 00:33:19.122 --> 00:33:21.081 How do you know, Lomax? 00:33:21.290 --> 00:33:23.166 Well you see, the British... 00:33:24.106 --> 00:33:26.146 they thought about building a railway that would run 00:33:26.170 --> 00:33:29.423 all the way from where we are here in Thailand into Burma. 00:33:29.507 --> 00:33:33.218 It would complete a line running all the way from China to India. 00:33:33.511 --> 00:33:35.971 If they'd managed it, it would have taken it's place alongside 00:33:36.055 --> 00:33:38.223 the great railway journeys of the world. 00:33:39.767 --> 00:33:41.018 Canadian Pacific. 00:33:41.185 --> 00:33:42.853 Trans-Siberian. The Orient Express. 00:33:42.937 --> 00:33:44.146 Yeah? 00:33:44.313 --> 00:33:45.814 Well why didn't they build it? 00:33:49.193 --> 00:33:50.193 Well... 00:33:53.906 --> 00:33:55.365 building a railway, 00:33:55.491 --> 00:33:57.993 is a hard, miserable job. 00:33:59.704 --> 00:34:02.456 It's usually done by poor immigrant workers. 00:34:03.875 --> 00:34:07.836 The great American railways were built by Chinese peasants. 00:34:08.755 --> 00:34:10.630 And even the British railways, 00:34:10.757 --> 00:34:14.176 they were built by Irish navvies fleeing from famine. 00:34:16.095 --> 00:34:17.304 But sometimes, 00:34:18.264 --> 00:34:21.808 a railway is simply too difficult to build. 00:34:27.690 --> 00:34:31.610 Well it's hundred of Miles to Burma... 00:34:31.694 --> 00:34:33.945 through mountains and jungle. 00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:37.574 The British decided, 00:34:38.534 --> 00:34:40.202 that to build such a railway, 00:34:40.286 --> 00:34:42.996 it would be an act not of engineering, 00:34:43.664 --> 00:34:45.415 but of extreme barbarity... 00:34:46.375 --> 00:34:47.709 and cruelty. 00:34:49.545 --> 00:34:51.880 The conditions would be such that... 00:34:52.381 --> 00:34:53.840 those who did not die, 00:34:55.426 --> 00:34:57.552 might well wish that they had. 00:35:00.098 --> 00:35:03.892 To build such a railway you would need more than just poor immigrants. 00:35:04.602 --> 00:35:06.228 You'd need an army... 00:35:07.730 --> 00:35:09.022 of slaves. 00:35:11.234 --> 00:35:12.901 And we've just become that army. 00:35:12.985 --> 00:35:14.319 We are not slaves. 00:35:14.445 --> 00:35:17.114 We are soldiers. You remember that. 00:35:18.449 --> 00:35:22.577 And we are going to do our best for those poor bastards up the line. 00:35:23.955 --> 00:35:25.872 Lomax, Withins, 00:35:27.458 --> 00:35:29.292 how are we fixed for a radio? 00:35:40.596 --> 00:35:41.596 Lomax. 00:36:00.491 --> 00:36:01.867 That should be the one. 00:36:02.368 --> 00:36:03.451 There we go. 00:36:11.627 --> 00:36:12.711 There it is. 00:36:18.968 --> 00:36:20.093 Did you get it? 00:36:20.261 --> 00:36:21.261 Here. 00:36:24.140 --> 00:36:25.307 That's good. 00:36:25.391 --> 00:36:27.976 We need a battery, but, Lomax... 00:36:28.811 --> 00:36:30.312 what else do we need? 00:36:31.230 --> 00:36:33.023 Well I can work on an aerial. 00:36:33.107 --> 00:36:35.233 But we must have the capacitor. 00:36:36.068 --> 00:36:37.068 Who got that? 00:36:37.361 --> 00:36:38.820 Jackson, I think. 00:36:43.618 --> 00:36:45.202 But he's up the line. 00:36:46.662 --> 00:36:47.829 Oh, great. 00:37:11.896 --> 00:37:12.896 Major? 00:37:17.818 --> 00:37:19.027 Major York? 00:37:28.996 --> 00:37:30.080 It's Lomax, sir. 00:37:30.581 --> 00:37:31.581 Signals. 00:37:56.190 --> 00:37:57.315 What's the problem? 00:37:57.775 --> 00:37:59.234 She's knackered, mate. 00:37:59.402 --> 00:38:00.902 Just like the rest of us. 00:38:19.005 --> 00:38:20.005 Jackson... 00:38:55.624 --> 00:38:58.543 It's, um, very beautiful. 00:38:58.919 --> 00:39:00.045 What's it called? 00:39:01.172 --> 00:39:02.339 The river? 00:39:03.507 --> 00:39:05.467 Ah... Maenam Kwae Yai. 00:39:06.302 --> 00:39:07.802 Maenam Kwae Yai? 00:39:07.970 --> 00:39:09.471 Maenam Kwae Yai. 00:39:09.597 --> 00:39:10.680 Thank you. 00:39:25.613 --> 00:39:26.821 Maenam Kwae Yai. 00:39:28.366 --> 00:39:29.491 Maenam Kwai Yai. 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:47.193 No good. Yeah. 00:41:13.596 --> 00:41:14.596 Ready? 00:41:15.598 --> 00:41:17.348 What if Hitler's in London? 00:41:18.225 --> 00:41:19.726 What do we tell the men? 00:41:21.353 --> 00:41:23.563 I can't say it sounds very likely. 00:41:38.954 --> 00:41:39.954 It's running! 00:41:56.013 --> 00:41:57.472 It's working. 00:42:14.490 --> 00:42:17.575 This is the BBC Home and Forces program. 00:42:17.660 --> 00:42:19.536 This is Bruce Belfidge. 00:42:19.870 --> 00:42:22.330 The Axis forces in the Western Desert 00:42:22.414 --> 00:42:24.415 after twelve days and nights 00:42:24.542 --> 00:42:27.752 of ceaseless attacks by our land and air forces 00:42:27.878 --> 00:42:30.004 are now in full retreat. 00:42:30.673 --> 00:42:33.299 Their disordered columns are being relentlessly attacked 00:42:33.384 --> 00:42:38.346 by our land forces and by the Allied air forces by day and night. 00:42:40.558 --> 00:42:42.600 In the morning there was a rumour 00:42:42.685 --> 00:42:45.562 that German tanks were just over the hill. 00:42:45.896 --> 00:42:48.314 Armed patrols went out on the road. 00:42:48.607 --> 00:42:50.650 Trees were felled at roadblocks 00:42:51.026 --> 00:42:56.155 and thunderbolts and lightning appeared low over the town and began weaving... 00:43:00.035 --> 00:43:03.705 What we have done is rekindle a fire 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:05.623 in British hearts 00:43:06.041 --> 00:43:08.293 here and all over the world 00:43:09.003 --> 00:43:10.336 which will glow... 00:43:22.641 --> 00:43:24.601 Major... Major York. 00:43:24.727 --> 00:43:27.228 The Russians have retaken Stalingrad. 00:43:30.941 --> 00:43:32.442 Got them on the run, sir. 00:43:36.196 --> 00:43:37.196 Sir? 00:43:37.990 --> 00:43:38.990 Come on, sir. 00:43:40.367 --> 00:43:42.201 We've got Hitler on the run. 00:43:45.539 --> 00:43:46.748 That's it, sir. 00:43:46.999 --> 00:43:49.542 And we're bombing Germany 24 hours a day, 00:43:49.918 --> 00:43:52.545 now the US Air Force has joined in. 00:43:55.883 --> 00:43:57.592 The men, sir, right? 00:43:58.135 --> 00:44:00.303 You've got to let them know it's going our way. 00:44:22.618 --> 00:44:24.369 We've got Hitler on the run. 00:44:24.453 --> 00:44:25.453 Pass it round. 00:44:27.414 --> 00:44:29.666 The Russians have taken Stalingrad. 00:44:29.750 --> 00:44:30.958 Be careful. 00:44:32.628 --> 00:44:36.673 Went on fighting until they had little ammunition left. 00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:39.425 Our troops in the north put down a smokescreen 00:44:39.635 --> 00:44:41.552 and under cover they withdrew a little 00:44:41.637 --> 00:44:44.305 while our bombers went in in three deadly waves 00:44:44.431 --> 00:44:46.933 to deliver a large aerial bombardment and one 00:44:47.017 --> 00:44:49.060 of the heaviest of the whole campaign. 00:44:49.186 --> 00:44:52.647 They rang the church bells at home for the first time since the beginning of the war. 00:46:53.894 --> 00:46:55.061 Thorlby. 00:46:57.815 --> 00:46:58.815 Finlay. 00:47:01.985 --> 00:47:02.985 Withins. 00:47:06.323 --> 00:47:07.323 Lomax. 00:47:08.909 --> 00:47:09.909 Lomax! 00:47:34.434 --> 00:47:35.893 Soldier. 00:49:02.397 --> 00:49:05.483 I think it was the bravest thing I've ever seen. 00:50:13.593 --> 00:50:17.304 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, 00:50:17.347 --> 00:50:18.973 I will fear no evil. 00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:21.267 For thou art with me. 00:50:22.936 --> 00:50:26.022 Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. 00:50:27.941 --> 00:50:32.153 Thou prepares the table for me in the presence of my enemies. 00:50:34.322 --> 00:50:36.240 Surely goodness and... 00:50:40.579 --> 00:50:43.748 Mercy will follow me for the rest of my life. 00:51:04.144 --> 00:51:05.519 It was... 00:51:06.855 --> 00:51:07.855 madness. 00:51:20.702 --> 00:51:22.453 But you can talk about it. 00:51:24.998 --> 00:51:27.083 Why can't he talk to me about it? 00:51:36.468 --> 00:51:39.386 I told you, you couldn't possibly imagine what he's been through. 00:51:39.638 --> 00:51:42.098 What did I say? What? Please, please. 00:51:43.308 --> 00:51:44.892 Please don't shut me out. 00:51:47.687 --> 00:51:48.938 Please. 00:52:06.581 --> 00:52:08.707 We had him for a little while. 00:52:08.875 --> 00:52:10.084 A week or so. 00:52:11.545 --> 00:52:13.963 We did our best to put him back together again. 00:52:23.682 --> 00:52:25.766 But we knew it wasn't over. 00:52:30.605 --> 00:52:31.981 They came for him. 00:52:32.941 --> 00:52:34.275 The young officer. 00:52:34.734 --> 00:52:35.985 Kempeitai. 00:52:36.486 --> 00:52:37.987 Their secret police. 00:52:39.197 --> 00:52:41.240 Lomax. We are satisfied you are guilty. 00:52:42.409 --> 00:52:44.326 You will be killed shortly, 00:52:44.828 --> 00:52:48.122 but it will be to your advantage to tell me the truth. 00:52:53.086 --> 00:52:54.378 Raise your arms. 00:52:55.088 --> 00:52:56.672 You will come with me. 00:53:21.531 --> 00:53:24.241 And then we didn't see him for two weeks. 00:53:45.486 --> 00:53:47.366 He never told me what they did to him. 00:54:00.111 --> 00:54:02.613 There are some things, Patti, that are so bad, 00:54:02.697 --> 00:54:04.573 so humiliating and... 00:54:06.076 --> 00:54:07.826 shameful... 00:54:09.246 --> 00:54:11.163 I'm not sure you could ever talk about them. 00:54:12.290 --> 00:54:14.750 Especially not to someone you love. 00:54:16.419 --> 00:54:17.920 Or want to love. 00:54:21.424 --> 00:54:22.424 I have to try. 00:55:15.186 --> 00:55:16.186 Patti. 00:55:53.641 --> 00:55:58.771 Eric. 00:56:19.459 --> 00:56:22.878 I hope you're not planning to throw yourself in there. 00:56:23.922 --> 00:56:27.174 As a gentleman I'd feel obliged to go in after you, 00:56:28.510 --> 00:56:30.969 and that may well be the end of me. 00:56:40.980 --> 00:56:43.857 The men used to call me Uncle. 00:56:46.194 --> 00:56:48.278 They thought I'd look after them, 00:56:48.446 --> 00:56:50.030 and I did, while we were there. 00:56:51.366 --> 00:56:52.449 But here... 00:56:52.534 --> 00:56:54.326 every month I stare into those... 00:56:54.953 --> 00:56:56.829 bitter, half-awake faces, 00:56:57.288 --> 00:57:01.708 and I know they desperately need me to put them back together again. 00:57:06.297 --> 00:57:07.339 But I can't. 00:57:09.759 --> 00:57:12.094 There's nothing I can do for them now. 00:57:13.972 --> 00:57:16.223 I think you do more than you know. 00:57:17.934 --> 00:57:20.102 Eric did something wonderful. 00:57:20.687 --> 00:57:22.479 He stuck his neck out 00:57:22.814 --> 00:57:26.024 to give us hope in a nightmare 5,000 Miles from home. 00:57:27.110 --> 00:57:28.527 He should have... 00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:30.863 medals and glory. 00:57:31.823 --> 00:57:33.907 Can't you make him understand that? 00:57:35.326 --> 00:57:36.493 No. 00:57:37.454 --> 00:57:38.579 It's too late. 00:57:40.081 --> 00:57:43.876 The only time I've seen him light up was when you came along. 00:57:50.550 --> 00:57:51.842 Patti... 00:57:56.347 --> 00:57:57.764 I have something. 00:57:59.934 --> 00:58:01.477 I think it's the most 00:58:01.728 --> 00:58:04.563 dangerous thing I've ever held in my hand. 00:58:05.231 --> 00:58:06.690 You must decide... 00:58:07.150 --> 00:58:08.734 if Eric should see it. 00:58:16.743 --> 00:58:17.993 It's him. 00:58:18.536 --> 00:58:20.579 The young Kempeitai officer. 00:58:21.539 --> 00:58:23.040 And he's alive. 00:58:24.584 --> 00:58:26.001 Nagase. 00:58:27.212 --> 00:58:29.004 I don't know what he will do... 00:58:29.130 --> 00:58:30.130 if we tell him. 00:58:33.718 --> 00:58:35.886 But doesn't Eric deserve a chance... 00:58:37.013 --> 00:58:38.430 for justice? 00:58:41.226 --> 00:58:42.726 Will you stand by him? 00:58:45.188 --> 00:58:46.563 Whatever he does? 00:58:59.744 --> 00:59:00.994 Whatever he does. 00:59:12.298 --> 00:59:13.340 I want to. 00:59:16.010 --> 00:59:19.471 I can't imagine anything worse than where he is now. 00:59:53.298 --> 00:59:55.048 It's him, isn't it? 00:59:58.553 --> 01:00:00.554 The bastard's back in Kanburi. 01:00:00.638 --> 01:00:02.639 Back at the scene of the crime. 01:00:02.807 --> 01:00:04.308 Can you believe that? 01:00:06.978 --> 01:00:08.145 He's alive? 01:00:08.354 --> 01:00:09.938 And he's living off it! 01:00:10.440 --> 01:00:12.566 Showing the railway to tourists. 01:00:13.901 --> 01:00:16.653 Bridge on the bloody River Kwai holidays. 01:00:18.323 --> 01:00:19.823 Nagase. 01:00:20.867 --> 01:00:22.701 I've had it translated. 01:00:39.385 --> 01:00:40.677 Look him up. 01:00:41.804 --> 01:00:44.056 He won't have a clue you're coming. 01:00:44.766 --> 01:00:46.516 Element of surprise, Eric. 01:00:46.726 --> 01:00:48.143 Always good. 01:00:54.817 --> 01:00:56.234 The years I've spent, 01:00:59.364 --> 01:01:01.114 imagining I'd found him. 01:01:02.492 --> 01:01:03.659 Making him beg. 01:01:05.912 --> 01:01:07.245 Making him scream. 01:01:10.750 --> 01:01:13.752 I've nursed myself to sleep on those sounds. 01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:21.218 And the snapping of the hyoid bone, and the chopstick through the eye. 01:01:32.730 --> 01:01:34.064 Your timing's off. 01:01:36.317 --> 01:01:37.442 What do you mean? 01:01:44.117 --> 01:01:46.618 We're not soldiers anymore, Uncle. 01:01:47.537 --> 01:01:49.913 We're bank clerks, school teachers, 01:01:51.040 --> 01:01:53.041 engineers, retired persons. 01:01:56.921 --> 01:02:00.924 If you'd come to me with this a year ago, I'd have hunted him down. 01:02:04.178 --> 01:02:05.762 But now I'm a husband. 01:02:08.474 --> 01:02:10.475 And she means everything to me. 01:02:14.355 --> 01:02:17.023 No husband would treat her the way you do. 01:02:20.111 --> 01:02:21.111 You punish her. 01:02:21.195 --> 01:02:22.404 You punish her! 01:02:25.658 --> 01:02:29.077 When we surrendered, the Japs said we weren't men. 01:02:29.245 --> 01:02:32.372 Real men would kill themselves. 01:02:33.458 --> 01:02:34.833 Would die of shame. 01:02:34.917 --> 01:02:35.959 But we said no. 01:02:36.210 --> 01:02:38.420 We'll live to fight you. 01:02:39.213 --> 01:02:41.089 We'll live for revenge. 01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:44.092 But we didn't, no. 01:02:44.761 --> 01:02:46.052 We don't live. 01:02:47.305 --> 01:02:49.264 We're miming in the choir. 01:02:49.515 --> 01:02:50.724 We can't love. 01:02:50.808 --> 01:02:51.850 We can't sleep. 01:02:53.853 --> 01:02:55.937 We're an army of ghosts. 01:03:02.737 --> 01:03:04.529 What happened in that room? 01:03:07.533 --> 01:03:09.117 What did they do to you? 01:03:14.123 --> 01:03:15.957 I think you should go now. 01:03:18.127 --> 01:03:19.586 Don't waste this. 01:03:19.962 --> 01:03:22.380 At least one of us deserves some peace. 01:03:23.049 --> 01:03:25.342 It's too late for me and the other guys but... 01:03:25.426 --> 01:03:28.720 you were the strongest. You were the best of us. 01:03:30.014 --> 01:03:31.431 You do this for me. 01:03:40.233 --> 01:03:41.358 Please. 01:03:45.613 --> 01:03:48.365 Come on. We're walking Finlay to the station. 01:03:49.158 --> 01:03:51.576 You... you want me to come with you? 01:03:52.328 --> 01:03:55.622 I thought we'd take him along the front, give him a little tour. 01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:05.549 I'm not a train spotter. 01:04:06.092 --> 01:04:07.801 I'm a railway enthusiast. 01:04:08.553 --> 01:04:10.595 You know we met on a train. 01:04:11.055 --> 01:04:13.932 You can't just say "a train" when you're talking about Eric. 01:04:14.016 --> 01:04:16.393 You have to say which train, when it was built 01:04:16.477 --> 01:04:19.145 where it was stopping, how many wheels it had. 01:04:28.990 --> 01:04:31.533 I'm going to send him a message. 01:04:32.827 --> 01:04:34.870 Something he won't be able to ignore. 01:05:25.588 --> 01:05:26.713 Yes? 01:05:36.349 --> 01:05:37.599 Oh, my God. 01:05:39.310 --> 01:05:41.311 Alright, thank you. 01:05:59.747 --> 01:06:00.956 It's Finlay... 01:06:04.961 --> 01:06:05.961 Where? 01:06:07.880 --> 01:06:10.757 Er... Warminster. 01:06:13.703 --> 01:06:15.864 He must have caught the Birmingham train, changed at... 01:06:15.888 --> 01:06:18.098 Stop it. Stop it! 01:06:21.727 --> 01:06:24.396 This is what you're going to do, isn't it? 01:06:27.108 --> 01:06:28.692 Isn't that what you want? 01:06:30.569 --> 01:06:32.320 I've seen you with him. 01:06:32.613 --> 01:06:34.572 Your secret little chats. 01:06:36.242 --> 01:06:38.868 That's what happens when you start interfering. 01:06:40.413 --> 01:06:41.746 Hope you're happy. 01:07:01.892 --> 01:07:04.394 May he have peace with God through our Lord, 01:07:04.478 --> 01:07:07.647 Jesus Christ, and rejoice in the hope of the Glory of God 01:07:07.773 --> 01:07:11.609 and not only so, but we glory in tribulations also 01:07:11.694 --> 01:07:13.570 knowing that tribulation 01:07:13.696 --> 01:07:14.863 worketh patience 01:07:15.364 --> 01:07:17.365 and patience, experience 01:07:17.700 --> 01:07:21.286 and experience, hope... 01:07:38.971 --> 01:07:40.180 One. 01:07:40.723 --> 01:07:41.723 Two. 01:07:41.849 --> 01:07:42.849 Three. 01:07:42.933 --> 01:07:44.517 Four. Five. 01:07:45.227 --> 01:07:46.644 Six. 01:07:46.896 --> 01:07:48.021 Seven. 01:07:48.230 --> 01:07:49.397 Eight. 01:07:49.732 --> 01:07:50.940 Nine. 01:07:51.192 --> 01:07:52.192 Ten. 01:07:53.944 --> 01:07:55.111 Jack. 01:07:55.654 --> 01:07:56.654 Queen. 01:07:57.823 --> 01:07:59.449 King. 01:10:52.414 --> 01:10:55.875 The flowers are an offering for the Mother of Waters. 01:10:56.377 --> 01:10:59.254 They symbolise the desire to atone for any evil 01:10:59.338 --> 01:11:01.547 that the pilgrim has done in life. 01:11:02.049 --> 01:11:04.759 I thought all the Buddhas were fat and jolly. 01:11:04.927 --> 01:11:07.929 No. The fat Buddha is not this Buddha. 01:11:08.347 --> 01:11:11.474 This Buddha is Siddhartha Guatama. 01:11:12.101 --> 01:11:14.769 The great Buddha, the Founder. 01:11:17.898 --> 01:11:19.732 The fat one is a monk. 01:11:20.025 --> 01:11:21.526 He is called Putai. 01:11:22.569 --> 01:11:24.445 Buddha is not a name. 01:11:25.489 --> 01:11:29.617 It is a title, like your Saint, perhaps. 01:11:32.538 --> 01:11:34.205 Come this way, please. 01:11:35.624 --> 01:11:37.292 I am from Japan. 01:11:37.501 --> 01:11:40.169 I come to this place on a pilgrimage. 01:11:40.462 --> 01:11:42.922 This is my 57th pilgrimage. 01:11:48.762 --> 01:11:52.890 This area was occupied by my country during the war. 01:12:15.414 --> 01:12:18.541 We are going to the War Museum over in Kempeitai. 01:12:35.476 --> 01:12:36.976 Thanks for coming. 01:12:38.062 --> 01:12:39.145 See you. 01:12:39.396 --> 01:12:40.772 Thank you, please. 01:13:36.286 --> 01:13:37.495 Sir. 01:13:38.539 --> 01:13:40.706 I'm afraid the museum is closed. 01:13:43.377 --> 01:13:45.336 I've come a very long way. 01:13:48.424 --> 01:13:52.301 I have a particular interest in knowing what happened here. 01:13:57.182 --> 01:13:59.183 What happened to these men? 01:14:00.477 --> 01:14:03.020 It will be open again tomorrow morning. 01:14:03.105 --> 01:14:05.148 Perhaps you could return then? 01:14:08.402 --> 01:14:11.028 I'm afraid this won't keep till tomorrow. 01:14:15.284 --> 01:14:17.827 I'm surprised you don't recognise me. 01:14:22.916 --> 01:14:24.333 Sit down, Mr. Nagase. 01:14:49.860 --> 01:14:51.694 Mister... 01:14:52.029 --> 01:14:53.905 Lomax. 01:14:57.784 --> 01:15:00.703 We won't be needing an interpreter this time. 01:15:02.998 --> 01:15:06.375 Of course, that wasn't your real function last time, was it? 01:15:09.421 --> 01:15:11.380 You will be killed shortly. 01:15:13.926 --> 01:15:17.470 But it will be to your advantage to answer my questions in the meantime. 01:15:19.806 --> 01:15:21.933 How can it be to my advantage? 01:15:24.186 --> 01:15:27.813 Your friends have already admitted to building a radio... 01:15:28.148 --> 01:15:30.608 in order to conspire with our enemy. 01:15:31.944 --> 01:15:35.530 They also said that you're the ringleader of the plot. 01:15:40.911 --> 01:15:42.954 He can do a lot worse... 01:15:43.455 --> 01:15:44.830 than to kill you. 01:15:50.796 --> 01:15:53.005 We want to know about the map. 01:15:53.966 --> 01:15:55.466 Why did you draw a map? 01:15:57.427 --> 01:16:00.721 Well it's a map of the railway. He knows that. 01:16:00.806 --> 01:16:02.181 Who's it for? 01:16:04.893 --> 01:16:06.852 For me. It's the railway. 01:16:06.937 --> 01:16:09.105 We know it is the railway. 01:16:09.856 --> 01:16:12.275 Why did you draw a map of the railway? 01:16:15.195 --> 01:16:17.071 I'm a railway enthusiast. 01:16:18.031 --> 01:16:19.532 Enthusiast? 01:16:21.910 --> 01:16:23.119 I like trains. 01:16:24.746 --> 01:16:26.205 I really like trains. 01:16:29.918 --> 01:16:32.461 You used this to communicate with. 01:16:32.546 --> 01:16:35.798 Thai Resistance and their Chinese paymasters. 01:16:36.425 --> 01:16:38.342 No, I didn't. 01:16:39.428 --> 01:16:40.886 How could I do that? 01:16:41.513 --> 01:16:45.558 You received information and then passed it on to them with this. 01:16:47.102 --> 01:16:48.519 How could I do that? 01:16:49.938 --> 01:16:51.606 I am asking the questions. 01:16:51.690 --> 01:16:53.316 You must answer them. 01:16:53.525 --> 01:16:56.068 But it's a receiver. 01:16:56.570 --> 01:16:58.154 It receives signals. 01:16:58.989 --> 01:17:00.656 It doesn't transmit them. 01:17:00.907 --> 01:17:03.034 How can you transmit with a receiver? 01:17:03.118 --> 01:17:07.538 You built this transmitter to tell the Chinese about our railway! 01:17:14.963 --> 01:17:16.088 So... 01:17:18.383 --> 01:17:20.259 Which bit do you talk into? 01:17:23.096 --> 01:17:26.724 Well if it's a transmitter you need to talk into it. Where? 01:17:33.774 --> 01:17:35.608 You do not ask questions. 01:17:36.443 --> 01:17:37.943 I ask questions. 01:17:38.278 --> 01:17:39.987 You answer the questions. 01:17:40.405 --> 01:17:42.406 I'm just trying to help you. 01:18:29.306 --> 01:18:30.306 Thank you. 01:18:43.093 --> 01:18:44.760 Just tell them. 01:18:46.054 --> 01:18:48.431 Or they will make you tell them. 01:18:48.682 --> 01:18:52.560 First personal singular, not third person plural. You... 01:18:53.520 --> 01:18:55.646 tortured me, you see, not they. You. 01:18:58.734 --> 01:19:01.068 They were afraid you were... 01:19:01.153 --> 01:19:04.488 No, you is second person. You need the first person. 01:19:04.698 --> 01:19:07.074 I tortured you, 01:19:08.326 --> 01:19:09.535 Lieutenant Lomax. 01:19:09.619 --> 01:19:10.661 Try it. I... 01:19:10.746 --> 01:19:13.122 I am at a loss. 01:19:14.750 --> 01:19:17.710 I want to ask... No, no, you don't ask. I ask. 01:19:17.794 --> 01:19:20.796 I ask the questions. You answer. 01:19:21.506 --> 01:19:23.090 Why did you build the radio? 01:19:23.175 --> 01:19:25.217 Who helped you to build the radio? 01:19:25.302 --> 01:19:26.427 No one. 01:19:27.262 --> 01:19:28.763 No one helped us. 01:19:30.015 --> 01:19:32.057 We built it ourselves. Liar. 01:19:32.142 --> 01:19:33.434 You tell lies. 01:19:33.602 --> 01:19:35.519 Why did you build the radio?! 01:19:39.274 --> 01:19:40.441 To... 01:19:42.277 --> 01:19:43.360 To listen to. 01:19:44.988 --> 01:19:46.280 To hear voices. 01:19:47.282 --> 01:19:48.949 To know what was happening at home. 01:20:04.049 --> 01:20:05.800 At the beginning of time 01:20:07.093 --> 01:20:08.677 the clock struck one. 01:20:11.056 --> 01:20:12.515 Then dropped the dew 01:20:13.558 --> 01:20:15.434 and the clock struck two. 01:20:18.563 --> 01:20:20.648 Who asked you to draw the map? 01:20:22.400 --> 01:20:24.318 From the dew grew a tree 01:20:25.570 --> 01:20:27.321 and the clock struck three. 01:20:27.906 --> 01:20:30.074 Where did you get the components for the radio? 01:20:32.452 --> 01:20:34.578 Then the tree made a door 01:20:35.956 --> 01:20:37.665 and the clock struck four. 01:20:41.461 --> 01:20:42.461 No! 01:20:43.713 --> 01:20:45.214 Man came alive 01:20:46.508 --> 01:20:48.217 and the clock struck five. 01:20:52.180 --> 01:20:53.347 Count not. 01:20:54.850 --> 01:20:55.850 Waste not 01:20:57.185 --> 01:20:59.019 the hours on the clock. 01:21:02.148 --> 01:21:04.108 Behold I stand 01:21:04.901 --> 01:21:06.694 at the door and knock. 01:21:30.719 --> 01:21:33.470 I did not expect you to be alive. 01:21:34.055 --> 01:21:37.266 No, of course you didn't. You thought you'd got away with it. 01:21:39.811 --> 01:21:41.270 Why are you alive? 01:21:43.607 --> 01:21:44.899 Why are we alive? 01:21:44.983 --> 01:21:46.400 No, you. 01:21:48.361 --> 01:21:49.486 Why are you alive? 01:21:51.489 --> 01:21:53.741 You were a war criminal. Why didn't they hang you? 01:21:53.825 --> 01:21:55.784 Not a war criminal. 01:21:56.328 --> 01:21:57.703 Just an interpreter. 01:21:57.787 --> 01:22:00.497 You were Kempeitai, you knew everything! 01:22:05.712 --> 01:22:07.546 Why did they let you live? 01:22:31.071 --> 01:22:32.655 Easy does it. 01:22:45.251 --> 01:22:46.752 Now listen. 01:22:48.254 --> 01:22:50.255 We intend to treat you fairly. 01:22:50.924 --> 01:22:52.883 We are civilised human beings, 01:22:54.386 --> 01:22:56.971 but we do need to see that justice is done. 01:22:58.431 --> 01:22:59.932 You're going to be transferred 01:23:00.016 --> 01:23:01.809 to Bangkok while we look into some of the charges 01:23:01.893 --> 01:23:04.645 that have been made against you. 01:23:06.648 --> 01:23:07.648 Translator? 01:23:08.900 --> 01:23:10.025 Yes, sir. 01:23:11.444 --> 01:23:12.444 Kempeitai? 01:23:13.321 --> 01:23:14.405 No, sir. 01:23:15.323 --> 01:23:16.323 Translator. 01:23:16.700 --> 01:23:18.909 Did you work for the Kempeitai? 01:23:19.452 --> 01:23:21.412 Torture? Beatings? 01:23:23.498 --> 01:23:25.207 Only translation. 01:23:30.338 --> 01:23:31.630 Over there. 01:23:39.389 --> 01:23:42.474 I worked for the War Graves Commission. 01:23:44.477 --> 01:23:46.478 They needed interpreters. 01:23:48.898 --> 01:23:50.816 We travelled the railway. 01:23:52.569 --> 01:23:54.486 We find dead bodies. 01:24:03.621 --> 01:24:05.164 We identified them. 01:24:09.919 --> 01:24:12.671 We brought them here to be buried properly. 01:24:25.351 --> 01:24:29.229 So you went up the line. You buried the men you helped to kill. 01:24:32.734 --> 01:24:34.109 That's when I saw... 01:24:37.489 --> 01:24:39.615 so many bodies. 01:24:41.034 --> 01:24:42.576 So very many. 01:24:45.580 --> 01:24:49.625 I had not imagined so many had died. 01:24:49.709 --> 01:24:51.210 Murdered. 01:24:52.128 --> 01:24:54.713 The word you're looking for is murdered. 01:24:56.007 --> 01:24:58.300 So many had been murdered. 01:25:08.978 --> 01:25:09.978 Go on. 01:25:11.356 --> 01:25:12.523 Murdered. 01:25:13.817 --> 01:25:14.900 Yes. 01:25:17.987 --> 01:25:19.404 That's what I saw. 01:25:19.489 --> 01:25:20.823 So many murdered. 01:25:22.158 --> 01:25:24.118 So I will speak. 01:25:27.413 --> 01:25:29.331 I make pilgrimages. 01:25:30.625 --> 01:25:31.917 I work for... 01:25:34.420 --> 01:25:35.921 reconciliation. 01:25:38.424 --> 01:25:40.467 I will not let them forget... 01:25:43.096 --> 01:25:44.513 the tragedy of war. 01:25:44.597 --> 01:25:45.806 The what? 01:25:47.559 --> 01:25:48.767 The tragedy of war. 01:25:48.852 --> 01:25:51.395 No, this wasn't a tragedy. This was a crime. 01:25:52.689 --> 01:25:53.939 You're not tragic. 01:25:55.817 --> 01:25:57.234 You're a criminal. 01:25:59.112 --> 01:26:03.282 You were an intelligent, educated man 01:26:04.159 --> 01:26:05.826 and you did nothing. 01:26:06.786 --> 01:26:08.453 You're a criminal and a liar. 01:26:08.830 --> 01:26:10.164 Mr. Lomax... 01:26:11.040 --> 01:26:12.833 Through my work here 01:26:13.001 --> 01:26:15.127 I have found some peace in my life. 01:26:16.713 --> 01:26:18.088 If I can help you... 01:27:34.165 --> 01:27:35.499 Mr. Lomax. 01:27:36.668 --> 01:27:40.671 I'm trying to answer these questions because you are asking them. 01:27:40.880 --> 01:27:44.132 But I don't think these questions are the right questions! 01:31:15.178 --> 01:31:16.344 No! 01:32:10.775 --> 01:32:14.611 Mother! Mother! Mother! 01:32:16.197 --> 01:32:19.199 Why won't you help me? Mother! 01:32:19.992 --> 01:32:23.286 Mother! 01:32:40.179 --> 01:32:41.346 Alright! 01:32:41.681 --> 01:32:44.015 Alright, I'll tell you! I'll tell you. 01:32:44.642 --> 01:32:46.434 I'll tell you, I'll tell you. I'll tell you. 01:32:47.478 --> 01:32:50.063 I'll tell you, I'll tell you. 01:32:51.607 --> 01:32:54.401 I'll tell you everything we heard on the radio. 01:32:54.735 --> 01:32:56.319 I'll tell you the truth. 01:33:00.324 --> 01:33:03.118 While you're here building your railway 01:33:04.370 --> 01:33:07.622 American submarines are destroying your shipping. 01:33:07.999 --> 01:33:11.376 There's shortages of food and fuel all over Japan. 01:33:11.752 --> 01:33:14.379 American planes are bombing your cities, 01:33:14.463 --> 01:33:16.214 destroying your Bridges, 01:33:16.882 --> 01:33:18.258 your roads, 01:33:19.010 --> 01:33:20.218 your hospitals. 01:33:21.637 --> 01:33:23.847 And there's no one to stop them. 01:33:26.183 --> 01:33:27.851 Your homes are burning 01:33:30.062 --> 01:33:32.314 and your families are starving. 01:33:37.987 --> 01:33:41.448 That is what I heard on the radio. 01:33:45.536 --> 01:33:46.745 You're a liar. 01:33:49.290 --> 01:33:50.624 You tell lies. 01:33:51.334 --> 01:33:53.251 You have no honour. 01:33:55.588 --> 01:33:57.172 Your army is defeated. 01:33:58.299 --> 01:34:01.176 You surrender like dogs. Look at you. 01:34:02.219 --> 01:34:04.471 You should be ashamed to be alive. 01:34:06.098 --> 01:34:07.974 If my army was defeated, 01:34:09.101 --> 01:34:11.686 I would take my life to save my honour. 01:34:13.856 --> 01:34:16.024 You're getting your chance. 01:34:16.984 --> 01:34:18.443 Any day now. 01:35:14.667 --> 01:35:17.335 My mother was already dead, as it happens. 01:35:21.757 --> 01:35:22.966 All through the war, 01:35:24.051 --> 01:35:26.428 I wrote letters home to a dead woman. 01:35:37.940 --> 01:35:39.607 What do you tell people? 01:35:42.528 --> 01:35:44.320 About what you did to us? 01:35:50.327 --> 01:35:52.537 We do not talk about it. 01:35:53.581 --> 01:35:56.499 No one will talk about it. 01:36:01.130 --> 01:36:02.130 Nor do we. 01:36:04.425 --> 01:36:05.759 And you know why? 01:36:08.804 --> 01:36:10.889 Because no one would believe it. 01:36:11.515 --> 01:36:14.142 No one would believe what you did to us. 01:36:21.108 --> 01:36:24.444 You treated us like animals because we surrendered. 01:36:26.822 --> 01:36:28.656 You said you'd rather die... 01:36:29.158 --> 01:36:30.992 than live without honour. 01:36:33.746 --> 01:36:35.163 But you didn't die. 01:36:40.419 --> 01:36:42.170 It was a lie they told us. 01:36:45.508 --> 01:36:46.841 It was all lies. 01:36:50.554 --> 01:36:52.138 That we would win. 01:36:54.350 --> 01:36:56.684 We would have honour. 01:37:01.148 --> 01:37:02.565 They lied to us. 01:37:04.944 --> 01:37:07.028 Only you told me the truth. 01:37:09.657 --> 01:37:12.492 No matter what we did to you, 01:37:12.952 --> 01:37:14.452 you held on. 01:37:19.625 --> 01:37:21.459 You showed me that 01:37:23.671 --> 01:37:26.631 nothing's worth more than this life. 01:37:32.972 --> 01:37:34.013 Finlay... 01:37:39.270 --> 01:37:40.520 He was my friend. 01:37:41.689 --> 01:37:43.273 He was a prisoner here. 01:37:48.737 --> 01:37:50.530 He put your life in my hands. 01:37:53.534 --> 01:37:55.243 He wanted an end to this. 01:37:57.204 --> 01:37:58.204 Maybe... 01:38:00.374 --> 01:38:02.750 that is why I am alive. 01:38:05.045 --> 01:38:06.170 For this day. 01:38:08.632 --> 01:38:10.258 Maybe we both lived... 01:38:11.927 --> 01:38:12.969 for this day. 01:38:22.187 --> 01:38:23.646 You can make an end. 01:38:27.776 --> 01:38:30.111 You are a soldier, Lomax. 01:38:38.621 --> 01:38:40.121 You never surrendered. 01:38:46.337 --> 01:38:48.004 I'm still at war. 01:40:59.595 --> 01:41:01.054 I thought I'd lost you. 01:41:18.572 --> 01:41:21.115 When Finlay died, I was scared. 01:41:23.577 --> 01:41:26.496 I was scared that the same might happen to you. 01:41:30.209 --> 01:41:32.168 It was different for Finlay. 01:41:35.089 --> 01:41:36.631 He didn't have you. 01:42:33.689 --> 01:42:35.898 Dear Mr. Lomax, 01:42:37.151 --> 01:42:40.820 I was a member of the Imperial Japanese Army. 01:42:44.533 --> 01:42:49.620 We treated you and your countrymen very, very badly. 01:42:53.167 --> 01:42:56.335 It is a long time since the war ended, 01:42:59.506 --> 01:43:00.631 but for me 01:43:02.801 --> 01:43:04.677 it is a time of suffering. 01:43:08.807 --> 01:43:10.766 The dagger of our meeting 01:43:11.018 --> 01:43:13.519 thrust deep into my heart. 01:43:17.357 --> 01:43:19.317 I never forgot you. 01:43:22.279 --> 01:43:24.071 I remember your face, 01:43:27.242 --> 01:43:28.242 your arms, 01:43:31.079 --> 01:43:32.413 your eyes. 01:43:38.587 --> 01:43:40.046 I have to go back. 01:43:43.175 --> 01:43:44.884 I want you to come with me. 01:44:27.886 --> 01:44:30.096 I wouldn't have lasted a day here. 01:44:31.974 --> 01:44:33.557 If you'd been here, 01:44:34.643 --> 01:44:36.727 you'd have caused quite a stir. 01:44:46.613 --> 01:44:49.073 You'd have outlasted the lot of us. 01:46:00.437 --> 01:46:01.729 I am sorry. 01:46:06.276 --> 01:46:07.485 So sorry. 01:46:16.370 --> 01:46:19.330 I don't want to live that day anymore. 01:46:25.295 --> 01:46:26.504 Neither do I. 01:47:02.916 --> 01:47:04.083 Dear Mr. Nagase, 01:47:05.836 --> 01:47:08.671 the war has been over for many years. 01:47:11.007 --> 01:47:12.425 I have suffered much. 01:47:14.302 --> 01:47:16.595 But I know you have suffered too. 01:47:20.350 --> 01:47:22.685 And you have been most courageous 01:47:23.061 --> 01:47:24.603 and brave 01:47:25.147 --> 01:47:27.314 in working for reconciliation. 01:47:30.402 --> 01:47:31.485 Sorry. 01:47:32.571 --> 01:47:34.530 While I cannot forget 01:47:34.948 --> 01:47:37.408 what happened in Kanchanaburi, 01:47:39.035 --> 01:47:40.453 I assure you 01:47:41.079 --> 01:47:42.705 of my total forgiveness. 01:47:54.634 --> 01:47:56.802 Sometime the hating has to stop. 01:47:56.826 --> 01:48:16.826 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.