Blood Oath is a 1990
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n feature film, known in some countries as
Prisoners of the Sun. The film is based on the real-life trial of
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soldiers for
war crime.War crimes are "violations of the laws or customs of war"; including "murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps", "the murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war", the killing of hostages, "the wanton destruction of cities, towns...
s committed against
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prisoners of war on the island of
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, in the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), such as the Laha massacre of 1942.
It was directed by Stephen Wallace and co-written by Denis Whitburn and Brian A.
Blood Oath is a 1990
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
n feature film, known in some countries as
Prisoners of the Sun. The film is based on the real-life trial of
JapaneseThe Empire of Japan was a Japanese political entity that existed during the period from the...
soldiers for
war crime.War crimes are "violations of the laws or customs of war"; including "murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps", "the murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war", the killing of hostages, "the wanton destruction of cities, towns...
s committed against
AlliedThe Allies of World War II were the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War . The involvement of the Allies in World War II was either natural and inevitable they were invaded or under the direct threat of invasion by the Axis or compelled by concerns that the Axis powers...
prisoners of war on the island of
AmbonAmbon may refer to:Places* Ambon Island, an island in Indonesia.* Ambon, Maluku, a city on the Ambon Island, the capital of Maluku .* Ambon, Morbihan, a commune in Morbihan, FranceOther...
, in the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), such as the Laha massacre of 1942.
It was directed by Stephen Wallace and co-written by Denis Whitburn and Brian A. Williams. The cast included
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Blood Oath was notable as the first feature film for both
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and
Jason DonovanJason Sean Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. He has been recently linked to the fast growing Australian show, Catch the Kanga. In the UK he has sold more than 3 million records, and his début album Ten Good Reasons was the highest-selling album of 1989 with sales of over 1.5 million...
, in minor roles.
The film was nominated for several AFI Awards in 1990, including "Best Film". It won the AFI Awards for "Best Achievement in Sound" and "Best Achievement in Costume Design".
Cast
- Bryan Brown
Bryan Neathway Brown AM is an Australian actor.-Early life:Brown was born in Sydney, the son of John Brown and Molly Brown, a house cleaner and pianist. He grew up in the south-western Sydney suburb of Bankstown, and began working at AMP as an actuarial student...
as Captain Cooper
- George Takei
George Hosato Takei Altman is an Japanese American actor, best known for his role in the television series Star Trek, in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise. He played the father of Hiro Nakamura, Kaito Nakamura, on the NBC television show Heroes...
as Vice-Admiral Baron Takahashi
- Terry O'Quinn
Terrance "Terry" O'Quinn , né Quinn, is an American actor. He made his debut in a 1980 television movie called F.D.R.: The Last Year." Since then, O'Quinn has had minor supporting roles in films and TV movies such as Young Guns, All the Right Moves, Silver Bullet, Places in the Heart and Between...
as Major Beckett
- John Bach
John Bach is a Welsh-born actor who has spent most of his career working in New Zealand.His best known role internationally is Madril in the two last movies of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy , but he has substantial television credits in New Zealand, including the title role of Detective...
as Major Roberts
- Sokyu Fujita as Mr. Matsugae
- John Clarke
John Clarke may refer to:* John Clarke , co-founder of Rhode Island*Colonel John Clarke Fought for Parliament in the English Civil War and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland...
as Sheedy
- Deborah Unger
-Private life:Unger was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to a nuclear disposal specialist mother and a gynecologist father. Before becoming an actress, she studied economics and philosophy at University of British Columbia...
as Sister Littell
- John Polson
John Polson is an Australian actor, director and founder of Tropfest. In February 2001, Polson attended the 12th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in Hokkaidō, Japan where his film Siam Sunset won the Minami Toshiko Award...
as Private Jimmy Fenton
- Russell Crowe
Russell Ira Crowe is an Australian actor and musician. His acting career began in the early 1990s with roles in Australian TV series such as Police Rescue and films such as Romper Stomper. In the late 1990s, he began appearing in US films such as the 1997 movie L.A. Confidential...
as Lt. Corbett
- Nicholas Eadie
Nicholas Eadie is an Australian television actor.Born in Sydney, New South Wales to actor and Australian Broadcasting Commission radio announcer Mervyn Eadie, he attended Waverley College from 1968 to 1976, studied Arts at University of New England for one year in 1977, and studied at the National...
as Sgt. Keenan
- Jason Donovan
Jason Sean Donovan is an Australian actor and singer. He has been recently linked to the fast growing Australian show, Catch the Kanga. In the UK he has sold more than 3 million records, and his début album Ten Good Reasons was the highest-selling album of 1989 with sales of over 1.5 million...
as Private Talbot
- Toshi Shioya as Lt. Tanaka
- Ray Barrett
Raymond Charles "Ray" Barrett was an Australian actor. He was one of the more popular leading men on British television in the 1960s, where he was best known for his appearances in The Troubleshooters . Back in Australia he was a leading man in many TV series over the years.-Biography:Barrett was...
as President of the Bench
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