All language subtitles for Prisoner of Japan (1942)

Distances are
great down under the Equator.

The vast beaches of the
Pacific hide countless islands

off the old shipping
lane away from the world.

Nights are warm there.

Native songs are soft magic.

A man's life could run so slowly,
so easily in this strange paradise.

That's the way it was.

Oh that was wonderful, Mrs Bowman.

Kiddo, you got any
gals around the island?

- Gals?
- Yeah, you know, skirts.

# Da da da da

No, no more dancing girls.

My mama died; dead long time.

Aah, you poor kid.

Maui no poor, Maui
pretty quick rich.

Maui own seven coconut trees.

Also Maui adopt big
boss fellow David.

Gots lots of money.

A capitalist, eh?

Well, pardon me.

Come in.

Yes?

- Ship reports at 10:30, sir.
- Carry on.

I suppose that means you must go.

Please, won't you stay
just a little while longer?

You see, we so rarely have
guests on this little island.

Sorry Mrs Bowman, but I'm
afraid we really must be going.

Can't I bribe you?

Before you go, would you at
least have another cup of coffee

or a beer, perhaps a bourbon?

Oh, I'm bribed.

I sure could go for another
piece of that apple pie.

And I would like another
cup of that delicious coffee.

Oh wonderful, it
won't take a minute.

By the way Mrs Bowman, tell
me how down in the South Sea

you ever learned the art of making

an old-fashioned New
England apple pie.

Why in New England, from my mother.

You see, although
I am 1/4th Japanese

and 1/4th Hispanic,
I'm also 1/2 American.

Well in my book,
you're 5/4th swell.

Mr Bailey has managed
to blush, I hope.

Yes sir.

I think that was a very
nice blush, Ensign Bailey

and a very nice compliment.

Now if this crisis has passed, let

go to the kitchen and make
some coffee, shall we?

David, why don't you show
Captain Morgan your telescope?

Captain Morgan, David has
the most wonderful telescope.

What is it, 12 inch refractor?

Well anyway, it's a
wonderful instrument.

Come on while they're stargazing,
let's go make some coffee.

Oh wonderful.

12 inch refractor,
that's no plaything.

DCD calling the Claw.

Come in the Claw.

X-10 DCD, calling the Claw.

Come in the Claw.

Will you pardon me a minute?

It's the trading post calling.

I won't keep you a moment.

That's perfectly alright.

, go ahead.

The plate's for camera.

The rice, potatoes and coffee.

You will get after great delay.

Three sing song house girl
bribes Captain, take them Tahiti.

Very sorry David, goodbye.

I suppose that sort of
thing is always happening.

Yes, quite often.

Down here in the islands,
you have to have patience.

I've learned that.

I've got it.

Now I know who you are.

I've seen your name in
print a number of times.

I remember an astronomical
volume, Island Universes.

Yes, that was the title!

Why you are the famous
David Bowman, aren't you?

No Captain, I'm the
ne'er-do-well David Bowman Jr,

very junior.

My father was a great name
in astronomy, great man.

I tried to follow in his footsteps,
but his stride was too long for me.

Come now, aren't you being
a little unfair to yourself?

I had a theory once, a big theory.

I meant to track it down
and prove it as true.

Truth.

Now I have six bourbons
and look at the moon.

Well, lets look at it.

You first, Captain.

At this time of the year,
the moon's at its best.

The atmospheric conditions
in the islands now

are most favorable for
astronomical study.

Why this is amazing.

- Have a drink?
- No, thank you.

Why it's a complete laboratory.

Yes, it's quite complete.

My father installed
it here years ago.

Well Captain, there's your moon.

Tonight you can almost
reach out and touch it.

This is remarkably clear.

I've seen dead things, but

never anything as dead as that.

Unless perhaps...

The moon and I have much in common.

Of course I always
have my six bourbons

to provide that
essential inner fire.

You're sweet.

Now Ensign, won't you
tell me about your work?

It sounds fascinating to me.

Oh it wouldn't be of any
interest to you, honest it wouldn't.

Oh, but it would.

What about this directional thing
you're looking for? What is it?

Well, I guess you'd call it

one of the most dangerous
weapons of modern warfare.

It's a directional
shortwave transmitter.

You see, they're the babies
that have been guiding

their Jap subs and bombers
straight to our convoys.

That's why our men searched
this island and your house.

You see, we feel sure that at least

four of these transmitters
are scattered in this Pacific,

and believe me, we're
gonna find them.

But it's a tough job.

You see, anybody can locate
a little set like yours,

but not this directional baby.

It's got special antenna
that shoots a radio beam

right where you want it.

Not just broadcast it to
the whole cockeyed world.

Look Mrs Bowman, lemme
show you how it works.

Alright, use this.

Here.

Now suppose this is the
horizon of the earth.

It's getting smaller every day.

Now this is the transmitter A.

It shoots a beam like a searchlight

or artillery gun up at an angle

and strikes what we call
the heavy-side layer

of gases in the stratosphere.

Because of electrical laws,
the beam is reflected back down to Earth

at a given, but distant point B.

All in between is blank,
no waves come down.

So it's all around,
hidden close in silence?

Not a peep.

It's a tough nut to crack.

The Japs'll sit out there on

one of these little islands
and put the finger on us.

No matter how careful
we are to stay

beyond the range of their
observation planes, we still get hit.

Tell me Ensign, do you have many
more of these islands to search?

It all sounds horrible
and terrifying to me.

It's not that bad, Mrs Bowman.

Tonight we go to Manihiki.

Where we go from there
is unpredictable.

I shouldn't have told you that.

I must be crazy.

Please Mrs Bowman, you
won't repeat that to anyone?

Repeat what?

About us going to Manihiki.

I shouldn't have told you that.

I must be crazy.

That's a Navy secret.

You don't tell those things
even to your own mother!

Oh please Mrs Bowman, it's
not that I don't trust you.

But I don't understand my
saying a thing like that.

I know better than to
say a thing like...

What's that?

Oh, that's nothing.

I installed a regenerating system.

Every once in a while,
it seems to get tired,

but it will be alright in a moment.

David, David.

Yes I know love,
it's the generator again.

I'm looking for the flashlight.

Do you know where it is?

Yes, I saw it on
the table there by the window.

Oh I'll get it.

Oh, there they are now.

Come in.

Yes?

Captain Morgan,
you're wanted on board, sir.

Radio standing by
from Commander Wilson.

Carry on.

Good day, sir.

We're leaving.

Aye aye, sir.

Goodnight.

Goodnight, Mrs Bowman.

Thanks for a wonderful
evening and the apple pie.

Goodnight, Ensign. If I had the
faintest idea of your destination,

I'd take one and send it to you.

But as I possess one
of your Navy secrets...

Mrs Bowman, you're...

- Goodnight.
- Goodnight, Ensign.

Goodnight Mr Bowman,
thanks for everything.

Goodnight.

Thanks again both of
you for a lovely evening.

Again, accept my apology for
having to search your house.

- Goodbye.
- Goodbye, Captain.

Goodbye.

You've been acting
kinda funny all evening

or is that just my imagination?

Unhappy.

Life's gone wrong with him.

Marrying that way's no good.

He's on the beach same as any
other veteran tango tango.

Only he's on the beach
in a clean shirt.

They're gone.

Yes, in one hour.

You are both very.

I would suggest however, David,
that in future occasion of this kind,

you would show a little
more affection for my wife.

You may go to bed, Loti.

Goodnight, Matsuru San.

Goodnight.

I'm sorry for you, David.

You show no sign of relaxing
in this unfortunate position.

I'm unhappy for you.

And I show even less

any sign of the
courage to kill you.

That makes me unhappy.

Ensign Bailey spoke the truth.

The destroyer is
bound for Manihiki.

You think I'm a weakling,
a fool and a drunkard!

You think you got me licked!

Well you're wrong, Matsuru!

Wrong, wrong wrong!

I say you're wrong!

What is it?

Manihiki.

David,

David.

Hmm?

Oh, I've been asleep.

It's late.

A little after 12.

What's that?

That research included
your father's esteemed books.

David, no supernova
has ever been charted

in the Trevino region, if
you having last flight.

- No?
- No.

You've found a new star David,
just bursting into life.

I'll help you case later and you
can mail a report to the societies.

That will be good.

That'll be great.

I shall protect the
lab for you, David.

But I know, I understand.

I should have forseen when we
took over this island of yours

and your house, that the
duration of war with America

would breed patriotism.

But you are not really
patriotic, David.

You'd have,
you should be patriotic.

Like your father, you are
intrinsically against war

and because you can't be against
war and be patriotic at the same time,

a great battle rages
in your conscience.

It is a completely
unnecessary battle.

You must only use your intentions
to put your conscience at ease.

Trying to hate me,

trying to be patriotic.

Under these circumstances,
it's like the useless beating of wings

for a bird in a cage.

You're a helpless
prisoner here, David.

Once you were my best student.

No one would more than you did.

You used to believe in
the things I told you.

Believe me now that
you'll be much happier.

I say to you as your teacher,

David, be logical.

Say to your conscience,
yes, I am patriotic

but I can do nothing about it.

So why should I not
enjoy this island?

Come David, be logical.

Let you and I find
our constellations

and wisdom in the skies.

, David.

Your new star is.

I'll find it for you.

No, you'll find it yourself.

Come on, David.

I'll.

Come.

So, are you all ready David?

Are the setting circles correct?

Yes, David.

Got the readings
from right ascension.

A sky full of stars

and bombers.

I guess all over the world now

if anybody looks up at the
stars, they think bombers.

Looks like we're gettin' out
of this just in time.

Sure hope those babies don't get
it in their heads to bomb us.

They won't bomb us,
we ain't worth it.

Anyway, I don't care.

Gimme a drink.

You got it.

Thanks.

Hey, what's that little
greaseball of a skipper doin'?

We're headin' into shore.

What's he stoppin' here for?

For me, because the way
I'm leaving you.

Hey skipper?

Be ready in five minutes.

What's the idea?

Ain't you goin' to Tahiti with us?

Yeah, what's so much on Niccolo?

A guy lives there.

Sort of a gentleman I
guess you'd call him.

Here, hold this for
me will you Edie?

No foolin' kids, he is a good one.

Anyway, I don't wanna go to Tahiti.

I wanna go home.

Back to the United States.

There's only one way I
know how to get there.

This guy.

He's got money and he's got a boat.

Every day you become more vain.

More American in your character.

Tough there's
a duration of yourself.

You displease me very much.

Yes, Matsuru San.

I'm a little tired.

- Shut up!
- Take your hands off me!

Will you shut up?

Matsuru Sama!

Matsuru Sama!

David Bowman does live here,
all I wanna do is see him, understand?

Will you shut up?

Okay, I won't talk for a week.

David.

David.

Huh?

David, there's a
young lady to see you.

Ooh go.

The guards just caught the girl.

She just came ashore from the.

Hello.

Hello.

You don't remember me, do you?

Toni Chase?

Well, I'm half asleep.

You don't.

No, I'm afraid you'll
have to help me out.

You had a flop of a
toothache, remember?

I got you some more of
those cloves for it.

Tortilla, sure.

In the saloon at Tortilla,
you helped me find a dentist.

Sure, I remember that much.

Here, have a drink.

I haven't had a toothache since.

It was quite a while
ago, wasn't it?

Well,

here's to Tortilla.

You don't remember anything
you said to me that night, do you?

Well, as I said, it was...

Do you?

No Toni, I don't remember a thing.

I was,

well, awful drunk.

You said...

You said that...

You said that if I ever needed
a friend, to call on you.

Did I?

I guess men say that.

I mean, it's one of those things
you say to girls you meet on the wing.

No, even if I was drunk when I said it,
I meant it.

- Oh mister...
- What is it, money?

Oh a little of that
maybe, but mostly...

You've got what money can't
buy in this part of the world

since Pearl Harbor.

What's that?

A boat.

A boat that's free and able
to get to the United States.

I haven't got the
Albatross any longer, Toni.

They took it away from me.

I owed them some money.

Oh.

Then you're sort of stuck
here and can't get out like me.

Yes, that's it.

I am sort of stuck here.

But you don't have to be stuck here,
I've got some money.

I'll radio for you to be picked up.

Help yourself to another bourbon.

No thanks, that first pour you
poured me was just the thing.

Say, any reason I can't
ask you a question or two?

No, go ahead.

You've got a Jap
servant, a slim guy?

Oh yes, he's sort of a servant.

Well you'd better get
on that radio of yours

and call the Marines 'cause
something's very fishy.

Two little Rising Suns just
yanked me around out there,

then did a quick jabber-jabber
with the slim one.

The two little ones were
carrying regulation Jap army rifles.

I know because a sailor friend
of mine had captured them.

Well Toni, the fact is...

The fact is what?

Let the Marines
hunt their own Japs.

You're kiddin'.

No I'm not.

I came here to get as
far away as I could

from the kind of messes
men get themselves into.

Let them fight. Let them kill each
other off, only leave me out of it!

I don't want any part of it!

Maybe I should have been
a judge in a dog show.

I don't do so good judging men.

Well what of it?

I hate war and everything
it does to people!

I hate fighting!

Listen mister, you talk like crazy.

You gotta fight,
everybody's gotta fight.

I got a rule I learned young.

Keep your fists
ready, keep it cocked.

So when some mug is ready to sock you,
you can sock him first.

That, by the way, puts
civilization back about 2,000 years.

That, by the way, is my religion.

So suppose I take a big load
off that gentle heart of yours

and borrow your phone.

No, please.

The radio is out of order.

Maybe I can fix it.

Miss Chase.

Careful, I bruise easy.

Mister, you got a servant problem.

Make him be good.

Miss Chase, you are
slow to understand.

Unfortunately you have blundered
into a situation that is most serious.

Also you are sharp-eyed.

You noticed the rifles.

So you are prisoner
here, indefinitely.

Very great harm will come to you
if you make any attempt to escape

or to signal boats offshore.

I'll advise, if you behave,
I think we can enjoy having you here.

How cozy

and you're in on it.

You know those big, fat, slimy
sea snails that Japs eat?

They haven't even a
shell, the slimy guck.

Well you're a little one.

Where do I sleep?

You can have my room
upstairs, I'll sleep down here.

No thanks, mister.

I'll sleep down here.

Get me a blanket.

You'll need a pillow.

Don't try to get away.

You'll be shot.

Good morning, David.

Wild Emporium.

Beautiful, don't you think?

Yes, very beautiful.

Beauty of flowers, stars.

These comfort me a little when I
am pained by ugliness and cruelty.

Blessed for you, David.

I slept only once, briefly last
night and dreamed of a ship on fire.

I did not dream at all.

Matsuru, Matsuru!

The sailing picked him up at dawn.

The only survivor, they say.

Bowman, get on your radio.

Call Navy station.

I get it.

We were dumb

and I did it.

I did it!

They're all dead!

They're gone!

Captain Morgan!

Captain Morgan!

Captain Morgan!

Do something, don't just
stand there, do something!

Please, Matsuru.

David it is hopeless, he's dying.

Haven't you anything at
least to stop his pain?

Now, there is no pain.

Matsuru.

Perhaps you had a better
suggestion to stop his suffering?

Loti,

Loti!

Got a cigarette?

I said, have you got a cigarette?

Oh don't get up, all
I want's a cigarette.

What do I do about a light?

Oh I'm sorry,

here.

You look kinda sick, buddy.

What happened about
the wounded officer?

He's dead, who told you?

Nobody told me nothing.

I woke up hearing somebody
jabbering about a yakka kuriki.

Just in case you're not half-Jap,
that means wounded officer.

I suppose that shot was him dying.

Nice people.

There was nothing
we could do for him.

Sure, a mercy killing.

Look, the less I have to do
with all of you, the better.

Just a couple of questions.

Who's the Eurasian woman?

She's Matsuru's wife, Loti.

And Matsurs's the slim jim.

I got it.

Oh, by the way, do I have
to eat with the family

or can I go catch
myself a raw fish?

You can eat with us, of course.

I thought maybe it would be easier
if you and your gentle Jap friend

just decided that I was
just too badly wounded too.

You sad bosszilla?

You want go away from Niccolo?

Yes Maui, I'd give my life to get
away from Niccolo and probably will.

Hmm?

Nothing Maui.

If you go, you
take Maui beside you?

Yes Maui, but no go.

There's no boat Maui.

But if you have boat,
you take Maui huh?

Of course Maui, I'd take you.

When and if I leave this
island, you go with me.

Wherever I go.

I promised your father,
I'd always take care of you and I will.

Maui find boat,
Japanese boat, well-hid.

I know they have the sailing
boat, but we can't get it.

Too many guards.

Not sailing boat Maui find.

Maui find another boat.

All hidden cove on
other side the island.

Little boat but good.

Tonight after we eat, I'll
be up in the observatory.

You be sure there are no
guards then you whistle

and I'll come and meet you
right here, understand?

We'll take a look at this boat.

Say, what's going on around here?

What's in that passageway
under the house?

Look, if you ever expect
to get away from here,

you'd better stop seeing
things and hearing things.

And forget you talked to me,
I'll explain when I get back.

Maui,

Maui?

Maui.

I'm sorry.

I will be able to repair
only the receiving set

but its better than
no radio at all.

Your just having a
picnic, aren't you?

Maui?

Maui!

You little beggar.

Maui.

Maui!

And now from the Pacific,

Tokyo claims the sinking of
the United States destroyer

of the Carney class, in
the vicinity of the Samoas.

Washington news officials admitted
the destroyer overdue at Manihiki.

This is the area
that has been proving

increasingly dangerous
to Allied shipping.

Lightening-like stabs by bomber
forces have taken a heavy toll.

A late dispatch on this.

A US patrol plane reports
sighting an oil slick

and scattered wreckage near
Manihiki, but no survivors.

I'm just beginning to get
what's going on around here.

Miss Chase, turn that
radio on immediately.

Sure, that's it.

Somewhere on this island Mr Matsuru,
you and your little brown men

have got one of those
new radio gadgets.

The kind our Navy
boys are huntin' for.

Haven't you?

Turn that radio on.

- You hear me?
- Okay, hold tight.

I was right.

I understood everything he said.

You're going to bomb a convoy.

You just think you're
gonna bomb a convoy

but this time you
won't get away with it!

This time I'll...
Shut up you!

Blame no one but yourself, David.

I'm sorry, of course.

You devil you!

You're not a soldier
fighting soldiers.

You're a murderer.

David, don't kill him!

You and your kind have
driven the whole world mad!

The same kind of madness
that's going to kill you!

Get up, get up!

Open that panel Matsuru.

We're going down
into that radio room.

There are two other doors to open.

They are all steel and
they open only by signal.

David, Matsuru lies about
the panel and the doors.

They do not open by
signal, they open by key.

You'll find it in his pocket.

David!

David,

put away that gun.

It's not in your nature to kill,
so put away that gun.

I promise you, I shall forget

this whole incident.

Hello, get in!

CQ,

CQ,

CQ, calling a convoy.

Longitude 155 degrees,
latitude 10 south,

come in please.

25 meters,

come in please.

I may not be getting
to them at all.

What can you do?

Take a chance that they do hear me.

CQ, the convoy.

I realize you may be under radio
blackout, but you must do as I say.

You're in great danger.

I am certain the Japanese bombers
have been called to attack you.

The size and position of
your convoy are known.

You must scatter the convoy
and get away as fast as possible.

Please, believe me.

I have forced my way in to
operate this directional transmitter.

It was this station that sank the
destroyer off Manihiki last night.

Please answer so that I
know you're getting this.

I don't like it.

Somebody's overheard our
orders instructing the convoy.

It could be they're trying
to get our exact position.

Could be a trap.

Don't answer.

What's the matter,
why don't they answer?

Toni, Toni, wake up.

What is it?

Listen.

What are they sayin'?

I didn't get it all but
it's a bomber base, wait.

(radio speaking Japanese.

David!

They're still holding
the bomber squadron

waiting for their exact position.

They're asking Matsuru
to give the position.

The convoy's safe.

David!

Come on Toni, come on.

What are you going to do?

The only thing I can do.

Try to reach the convoy again.

It won't take 'em 10 minutes to break
through the door to that generator.

CQ the convoy.

CQ the convoy, come in please.

CQ the convoy, calling
the convoy, CQ.

Why don't we smash the radio?

It wouldn't do any good,
Toni, to smash the radio.

They can repair it if it took
them six hours, even 10 hours.

The convoy would still
be another 80 miles away.

That's 15 minutes for a bomber.

Manihiki to Commander McDonald.

Manaheki to Commander McDonald.

Do not answer.

Official dispatch Navy Intelligence
to Commander McDonald as follows:

regarding unidentified
shortwave in operation

beginning 12:42 a.m. this date.

Please advise Commander
McDonald leave convoy,

maintain radio silence
unless imperative.

Investigate island
charted as Niccolo.

Longitude 154 degrees
west, nine degrees south.

Only white resident known
to Navy Intelligence,

David Bowman: American
citizen, astronomer, age 36.

Proceed at once, repeat.

Investigate island
charted as Niccolo.

Longitude 154 degrees
west, nine degrees south.

Only white resident known
to Navy Intelligence,

David Bowman: American
citizen, astronomer, age 36.

Proceed at once.

Toni, are you afraid to die?

I don't think so.

It's either the troop
ships and that convoy or us.

If one of their battleships
or cruisers will talk

and they've got to,
and they're in range,

there's only one thing we can do.

Ask 'em to blow this
power plant off the map.

Well, what are we waitin' for?

Well, this is it.

David Bowman to Commander McDonald.

David Bowman on Niccolo
to Commander McDonald.

I have just heard
Manihiki's message.

You can't possibly get here in time
to save your convoy or troop ships.

This island is a Japanese base.

I am a prisoner here and I am
barricaded in the control room

with the radio; sank the
destroyer off Manihiki.

You have five minutes or
less to stop the Japanese

on this island from
breaking through

the last bulkhead door
of this control room.

This control room is
located under the knoll

100 yards east of the small
white house in the palm grove.

You must understand.

If you're in range and can see us,

you must open fire
at once but hurry.

You must hurry.

Please answer.

- Man your battle stations.
- Man your battle stations.

Forward battery, ready to fire.

Forward battery, ready to fire.

After battery, ready
to commence firing.

After battery, ready
to commence firing.

- Range 26,400 yards.
- Range 26,400 yards.

Mr Bowman, we are ready to fire.

You are now in command of my ship.

I think it'll take at
least four salvos Sir.

We are deep underground.

Well done, Mr Bowman.

You are in the best tradition
of the United States Navy.

You are a brave man.

- Forward battery.
- Forward battery.

- Fire!
- Fire!

Forward battery.

Forward battery.

Fire!

Fire!

David,

I'm afraid.

Don't be afraid.

I try not to be.

Now I remember that night in Tortilla,
Toni, and everything I said.

What did you say David?

I said that you were beautiful.

That you were lovely.

More lovely than anyone
I had ever known.

More noble than anyone
I had ever known.

Who had I ever known?

Who could take in
hearts as friends.

Bitterness,
disappointment and sorrow

and make of them a song.

A song of defiance, of hope.

Of tenderness and love.

And then,

remember?

I said,

"Toni, I love you"

You never said anything like that.

Well if I didn't, I should have.

David?