All language subtitles for The Highest Honor (1982)

[bomb explosion]

[soldiers shrieking]

[gunshots firing]

[gunshots firing]

[bomb explosion]

[soldiers shrieking]

[bomb explosion]

[engine revving]

[airplane engine revving]

[cup bumping]

- Morning, sir.

- Well, chaps, we're
implementing Operation Exit.

- [Unintelligible]

- Wouldn't wanna get much worse.

Now, we're establishing
an escape route.

There are a lot of people

who must be siphoned
out of Singapore.

Communications
experts, technicians,

senior civil servants.

- Go through Sumatra, sir?

- Yes.

Now, Captain Lyon,

you'll be based here
at Pulau Durian.

You'll move them on the
Indragiri River, here.

You, Captain Davis,
will be located there,

and move them on to Ringgit,

for evacuation to Salam.

- Right, Sir.

- I'll be at Ringgit.
- And when do we leave, sir?

- Well, now.

- Now, sir?

- Yes, I'm afraid so.

There's a boat waiting
for you at Kaliaki.

- Very good, sir.

[dramatic music]

[boat engine revving]

[dramatic music]

- Which one of your blokes
is Gordon Highlanders?

- [Gordon] Yes.

[boat engine revving]

- You're Captain Lyon?

- Yes.

- Reynolds.

You are the one I
dropped at Pulau Durian?

- That's correct, yeah.

[boat engine revving]

Where'd you pick
up this old scowl?

- Navy commandeered her.

She was a Jap fishing boat.

Bottom full of worm,

engine run by a
treadmill of white mice.

- But beautifully nondescript.

- With any sort
of luck mate,

she'll get you where
you're going.

- And maybe back again?

- Why would you bother?

You'll have the
dickens in Singapore.

Doubt it'll see the week out.

[birds chirping]

[car engine revving]

You speak English?

Yes.

Why does he not come himself?

He's sick, very sick.
Please help him. Please!

- Well, there she is Digger,

the house on the hill.

- Excuse me.

- Right on, fellas.

This way.

[dramatic music]

[horn blowing]

[suspense music]

[boat engine revving]

[dramatic music]

- The Krait?

- Krait! It's an Indian
name for a snake.

Now, what do you think of her?

- She's a tub, a 100%
first class bloody tub.

- That is exactly what we need.

- Captain Lyon.

- Major. [points at rank]
Did you have a good trip, Bill?

- Depends on
your point of view.

We returned on a
bloody ramp pathway,

We would never have got here

if it wasn't for my engineer.

[door thudding]

Come up here and
meet the new owners.

[waves crashing]

- If you're the new owner,
sir, you have my sympathy.

- I'll leave you with a
Lieutenant Carse, Bill,

hand over command or whatever
it is you Navy types do.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- When are you gonna
tell me where you want me

to take this thing?

- Well, she used to work
out of Singapore, Ted.

That's why she's
so valuable to us.

[dramatic music]

- There's an absolute training
maximum, 15 hours.

[door thuds]

- Come in.

- How are you?

- Well, thanks.

- I'm Major Ivan Lyon,

this is Don Davis and
my two IC, Royal Navy.

- Bob Page.

- Welcome aboard, do sit down.

- Thank you, sir.

- Why did you
volunteer for Z, Bob?

- I thought it was about time
I did something positive.

That's partly the reason.

- And your father is Deputy
Administrator of New Guinea,

is that correct?

- That's the other part.

He's a prisoner of the Japs.

- So is Major Lyon's wife.

- I also see he was a
soldier, highly decorated.

- Five times, sir.

- Don't try to
outdo him, will you?

- Hardly.

- We're not looking for
any heroes around here.

- I'm not the type, sir.

- Good.

Right, let's put
you in the picture.

[dramatic music]

[boat engine revving]

Everyone forward.

[dramatic music]

Hi.

I'm sorry I couldn't tell you
where we're going to til now,

but there were the
usual security reasons

that I'm sure you'll
all appreciate.

The fact is we're on
our way to Singapore.

- You beauty!

What'd I tell you?

[soldiers chattering]

- Now, we're going in as close
as we can with the Krait.

Establish a base on
one of the islands

at the top of the
Riau Archipelago.

We'll send the canoe
teams in from there,

and attach limpet mines

to enemy ships in
Singapore Harbor.

[soldiers laughing]

- Bloody Jap ship mate.

- Now, we have a Japanese boat,

and we're flying
the Japanese flag.

That's our best chance
of escaping detection

in the weeks ahead.

So it is not strictly by
the book, but there we are.

Now, I make this point,

because I want you all to be
aware that if we are captured,

there is every possibility that
we'll be executed as spies.

And we also start looking like
what we're supposed to be.

- Japanese?

- Malays.

- Bob, top side!

[soldiers laughing]

- You'll do me, Bob.

You don't look Malay to me,

he looks more like
a Bangkok whore.

[soldiers chattering]

[dramatic music]

[boat engine revving]

- This is our 40th day
since we left Australia.

I don't like running
in this close.

- Not to worry, Ted,

I've been to
these parts before.

- On foot, no doubt.

- No, I had a yawn in
Singapore before the war.

I spent my honeymoon down here.

- Honeymoon?

- Right where we
are now, in fact.

She drew about the same.

I got through then,
we'll get through now.

- Bit better company
than this trip.

- Certainly better looking.

[boat engine revving]

Look boys, no noise.

Good work, Paddy.

- [Captain Lyon] It's on, Page.

- [Page] Done!

- We'll be reaching Penang
Island in two hours time,

and we'll make it our base.

We drop the canoes in
as soon as it gets dark.

- So it'll give us something
to tell the kids, eh, Bob?

- Well, I just hope
we can pull it off.

Keep your fingers crossed

the Japs aren't too
lively around that harbor.

- Yeah.

I wonder what the little
buggers are up to right now.

[singing foreign music]

[horn blowing]

- Looks like they never
heard about blackouts.

- Yes.

- Well, best of
British flood lights.

- Now take care, chaps.

[ship hooting]

[metal clanks]

[waves crashing]

[bell ringing]

[waves crashing]

[singing foreign music]

[man coughs]

[bombs explode]

[people shrieking]

[bomb explodes]

[bell ringing]

[alarm rings]

- [speaks in foreign language]

[bombs explode]

[soldiers cheering]

[soldiers chattering]

- [Soldier One]
Congratulations, lad.

You pulled it off.

[soldiers chattering]

[suspenseful music]

- [News Reporter] In the
early hours of the morning,

a series of explosions
in Singapore resulted
in the sinking

of seven Japanese
military cargo vessels.

The attackers caused
great loss of faith

for the Shonan authorities,

who have shown
themselves vulnerable

to this type of sabotage.

This is "The spirit of
resistance of Malaya,"

signing off for today.

- What do you think of it, Don?

- It's a bit more sea
worthy than the Krait.

- It won't be quite the
same though, will it?

No more sarongs or blacking up?

- Oh, there will be later.

- Ivan, I'm no pessimist,

but I would prefer that
it wasn't Singapore again.

I think we're pushing our luck.

- Not necessarily.

According to our intelligence,

the Japanese think the
last raid was conceived

by our men in Changi Prison

and carried out by
local guerillas.

- Well, they have
no idea it was us?

- Not the slightest.

[laughs softly]

That's why I wanna make
it Singapore again.

That's where we can
hit them the hardest.

- Well, you know me, Ivan,

where you go, I go.

Alright, gather around, chaps.

- Quiet!

Quiet!

Come on, keep it down!

- I'm sorry, sir.

I'd like to extend a
welcome to the new members

for the next operation,
code named Rimau.

And a special thanks
to the old hands

from the Krait, who've
come in for another go.

[soldiers cheer]

Now, you all know each other,

but I don't think you've
met this gentleman.

This is Major Otto Ingleton
from the Royal Marines.

Now, he's acting as an observer

for Southeast Asia Command.

And he'll be coming with us
to see how it's all done.

- Well, I'll try to
keep out of your way.

And I don't mind
being called a Pommy,

so long as it's not
that Pommy bastard.

- Okay.

[soldiers chattering]

- For the success
of Operation Rimau,

down the hatch.

- [Soldiers] Cheers.

[soldiers chattering]

- Pleased you could make it, Bob.

- Well, I couldn't
let you fellows

go wandering off on your
own. You'd get lost, Pop.

- Thanks for coming, Bob.

- Well, there's a
job to be done, Ivan.

- There's some great new
toys to do it with too.

One man subs,

that were designed at Special
Operations in England.

They have a range of 35 miles,

can cruise down to a depth
of about five fathoms.

And can get along
about four knots.

They're battery powered,

and the operator
wears oxygen gear.

We call them SBs,
Submersible Boats.

The Japs won't know
what's hit them.

[man whistles]

Departed Freemantle 1225 hours,

West Australian Standard
Time, 11th of September.

Proceeding north
through Lombok Strait

to Singapore area,

with group known as
Rimau, Malay for tiger,

under the command of
Lieutenant Colonel Lyon,

and comprising 22
officers and other ranks,

of Z Special Force.

We'll unload five tons of
store on Merapas Island.

and establish rear
base for party,

before proceeding
on to Singapore waters.

[dramatic music]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[dramatic music]

- What about this, Colonel?

- It's a 50- or 60-tonner.

Come and look at this, Don.

- [Don] Yes, I like it.

And she's obviously
not carrying any cargo.

- It's better.

- Yeah.

- Let's get in a little closer.

Helmsman, 20 degrees to port.

- Port 20 we're on, sir.

[people chattering]

[people chattering and laughing]

[man shrieking]

[men shrieking]

[men speaking in
foreign language]

[water swooshing]

Come on, tie it off.

This is the life...'eh, Bob?

Better off than those poor bloody
Malays in the submarine.

Like the old days...'eh, Skipper?

Even better.

- [Colonel Lyon] Right,
gather around chaps!

Now, as we're less than
12 miles from Singapore,

let's just recap.

Now, tonight we'll
unload the SBs

and the drivers, and we'll
go in for the attack.

You, Raymond, will stand
by here on the junk.

And we'll rendezvous
back here at 05:00.

Then we collect the
canoes and stores

and sink the junk in deep water.

- And the SBs?

- That's right.

Then we'll make our way
back to Merapas Island

to meet up with the submarine.

Now, I've allowed
five miles a night.

And it's 70 miles to Merapas.

Now, we'll be there in 14 days.

That's plenty of time to
make the submarine pickup

on the 8th of November.

Have you got any questions?

- Stand to. Japs.

- Right, quick as you can.

Two handguns please, quickly.

Two handguns, please.

Absolutely no shooting
unless I give the order.

[boat engine roaring]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- They're onto us! [gunshots firing]

[dramatic music]

You were told no shooting.

Who was the stupid idiot
that started all that?

I will have his balls when I find him!

That is a Malay patrol boat.
They are civilian police officers.

Unarmed!

[dramatic music]

Oh, God.

Right!

Don, get the canoes
out as fast as you can.

- Not the SBs?

- No, we're pulling out.

[soldiers grumble]

- We can still go in tonight.

Singapore is only 12 miles away.

- We have blown it!

In a matter of hours, the Japs

will be swarming
all over this area.

- Ivan, we have to hang around
here for four weeks anyway,

before the sub picks us up.

We might at least give it a go.

- We can't turn back
within sight of the target.

Ivan, we can be in and gone

before they even wake
to what's happening.

And it will give
them something else

to think about in the morning.

- No.

It is my decision.

- [Soldier] What?

- It is my decision!

We're getting out.

Now, the most important thing,

as far as I'm concerned,

is the Japs do not get
their hands on the SBs.

There'll be another day.

Now, move!

- All right lads, jump to it.

So close.

[dramatic music]

[waves crashing]

[dramatic music]

[bomb explodes]

[dramatic music]

[waves crashing]

[airplane engine roaring]

[men speaking in
foreign language]

[drum music]

- Zeroes!

[waves crashing]

[airplane engine roaring]

[man speaking indistinctly]

- [Captain Lyon] Be quick.

Come on people.

[gunshots firing]

[birds chirping]

[gunshots firing]

- Clear us a path I'll
hold them up here.

- Okay, boss.

[gunshots firing]

- I'll stay with you, Ivan.

- Captain Page, you
will go with the men

and that's an order!

Now move, move!

Come on, move!

- We'll wait for you at Merapas.

- You'll be all right, Dougie.

[gunshots firing]

[gunshots firing]

- [Soldier] Were gonna
[unintelligible].

[gunshots firing]

[dramatic music]

[gunshots firing]

[dramatic music]

[gunshots firing]

[birds chirping]

- Right, gentlemen.

Our date with the
submarine is four days away,

and we've still got five
men unaccounted for.

We know Don bought it.

And we have to presume that
Colonel Lyon is dead too.

Any suggestions?

- You think we should send a
scouting party back for him?

- Where would we start?

- Japs!

[gunshots firing]

- Get down!

[men shrieking]

[gunshots firing]

- It's about four miles
to the next island.

Keep together.

If anyone gets into
trouble, we all wait.

- You hear what
the man said, eh?

- We shouldn't
strike any trouble.

- He's taken us for
a flight, all right.

We used to make rafts
out of them when we were kids.

- We'll hide out in
this next island,

until the eighth.

Then one of us can
swim back here,

and try to make contact
with the submarine.

- What if the Nips catch
up with us again?

- We'll keep moving on.

- Plenty of cover around here.

- Plenty of Japs too.

- What's the plan
if we miss the sub?

- Start heading south.

[dramatic music]

[birds chirping]

- You can't say I
didn't warn you.

It'll be a long swim.

- How long do you reckon it'll
take to get back to Australia?

- How long we
been on the run now?

- About nine weeks.

- Well, we can manage to
pinch a boat somewhere.

- Here, give me a hand.
[man speaks indistinctly]

- Yeah, it's only
about 2000 miles.

- [unintelligible]

- Well, we're on our own, mate.

The sooner we get started...

- Let's go.

[birds chirping]

[dramatic music]

[birds chirping]

[dramatic music]

[car engine revving]

[man coughs]

[car hoots]

- It is unfortunate for you men,

that you have been
taken prisoner.

Your status will be decided,

after you have been
fully interrogated.

And now, you must be made
a little more presentable.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- You will go with the Sergeant.

[man speaks in foreign language]

[dramatic music]

[men speaking in
foreign language]

- Good morning.
- Morning.

- Have you injured your leg?
- No, no...it's just a sprain.

If I forget about it,
I dare say it'll go away.

We will have the doctor examine it,
and we'll get you a crutch.

This is good enough, thank you.

What are those notches for?

- I've been counting one of those every week since I...
- Since you what?

Since I started ducking for cover
from you fellows.

What is your rank and service?

I am Major
Reginald Middleton Otto Ingleton
of the Royal Marines.

What part of England are you from,
Major Ingleton?

Wanstead...in Essex.

- Married?
- Yes.

- Wife's name?
- Sybil.

- Your age?
- 29.

How do you come to be involved
with these Australian soldiers?

No, no...that's as far as we go.
What you're getting, you've got.

- I suppose, eucalyptus
leaves remind you of home, eh?

- Please, sit down.

- You are Australian,
aren't you?

- Yes, I am Australian.

Page, Robert Charles,

Captain, Australian
Imperial Force.

Regimental number NX 19158.

- Have some coffee, captain?

- Thanks.

Am I being given
special treatment
because I'm an officer?

- No, coffee's being
given to everyone.

- Even the lowest ranks?

- Of course. [speaks
in foreign language]

- Look, I'll be honest with you.

I'm no captain.

I'm an Able Seaman in
the Australian Navy.

[man speaks in foreign language]

My name is Falls, Walter Gordon,

but my mates call me Poppa.

- Poppa?

Why Poppa?

- 'Cause I'm a bit, uh,
long in the tooth.

My age, I'm old.

- How old?

- 24. Over the hill.

- Where you from?

- Casino...in New South Wales.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- And what is the
nature of your group?

You prisoners.

- We're a...a mobile laundry unit.

We came up here
to do your washing!

[man speaks in foreign language]

[table thuds]

[man speaks in foreign language]

Cheers.

[men speaks in foreign language]

[birds chirping]

[ship hooting]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- SB?

We picked this up.

It belonged to one of our men.

Would this be him?

There was a notebook with his body.

- You were on a special
mission called Operation Rimau.

- What happened to the body?

[men speaks in foreign language]

- Buried him, where he was
killed, on Karas Island.

- He was our commanding officer.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Nothing is written
on the grave marker.

I wish I could put some
kind of inscription on it.

- Put, Lieutenant
Colonel Ivan Lyon,

MBE, the Gordon
Highlanders, RIP.

[men speaks in foreign language]

[ship hooting]

How is Major Ingleton today?

- The better for your
inquiry, Mr. Tamiya.

- These things are for you.

- Thank you very much.

- You were asking about books.

These are the only ones
I can find in English.

- Thank you.

Ah, this is better, Shakespeare.

- Oh, you read Shakespeare?

- You find that strange?

- No, I suppose not.

Many Japanese officers,
read and even write poetry.

- You're joking.

- No, I'm very serious.

It is considered a most
appropriate thing to do.

- Sometimes, Mr. Tamiya, you
sound like an Oxford graduate.

- Now, Major Ingleton,
you've hurt my feelings.

I'm a Cambridge man.

- Really?

- Why should I lie to you?

Oh.

I thought this
might interest you.

- Thank you, Tennyson.

- Yeah.

He is my favorite English poet.

- I'm glad it has wide margins.

- Yes, you can start
keeping a diary.

- Well.

- Thank you.

- Oh, do any of you play chess?

- Yeah, you're right.

- Oh, I have a set.

I will bring it tomorrow.

- You play, Mr. Tamiya?

- Not very well.

- Good, I'll take you on.

- No, I cannot.

- Thanks again.

- Charming fellow.

[man coughs]

[door opens]

- Mongrels!

- It's [indistinct].

- It's Lieutenant Sargent!

- Major Ingleton.

- Poppa, where are we?

- Singapore.

- My God, how far did you get?

Made it to Bali.

- That's halfway home.

- Better than any of us.

- Who else is with you?

- [Sargent] Raymond and Riggs.

- [Soldier] Where are they?

- [unintelligible].

- It's all right, Dag, we'll
give it another go,

you know, they're tracking you.

You can never go.

- [Sargent] Yeah, I'll be in it.

Just gimme, a couple of minutes.

Just a couple of minutes.

[dramatic music]

[sergeants speaking
in foreign language]

What part of Australia are you from,
Captain Page?

Queanbeyan, near Canberra.

But I was living in Sydney
when I joined the Army.

How long have you been
in the Army?

I'm not in the Army.
I'm a civilian.

But...you're wearing a uniform.

Even an interpreter has to wear a uniform,
when he works for the Army.

- Were you an interpreter before the war?
- No.

I was in the Diplomatic Corp.

- Here in Singapore?
- For 2 and 1/2 years.

Where were you during the fighting?

In Chunging prison.

What for?

The British claimed I was doing
a bit of spying on the side.

- And, were you?
- Well, perhaps.

You know what it's like then.

- Being in jail?
- Mmm.
- Oh, I do indeed.

I both understand and sympathize.

- How close were you
to Singapore when
you blew up the junk?

- Oh, 12 miles or so,

just across the straits.

- It was fortunate for us
that you destroyed those SBs.

- Why do you say that?

- You'd have created havoc

if you'd got them
into Singapore.

- How much do you
know about the SBs?

- Oh, everything.

Major Ingleton told
us all about them.

- Ingleton?

- Yes, we discuss
a lot of things.

- Did I tell you, I used to
live near his home in Essex.

Oh, it's your move.

- Mr. Tamiya, do you really
know everything about the SBs?

- Yes, Captain Page.

We do.

- Well, I suppose they're
nothing new to you.

You've had midget
submarines for years.

- Yes, that's true.

[door squeaks]

[door locks]

- Otto, why did you tell
our friends about the SBs?

- What are you talking about?

- There's no point
in denying it.

Tamiya told me about
your little chat.

- Are you accusing me of giving
information to the enemy?

- Did you or didn't you?

- No, I did not!

- You disappoint me, Bob.

- You didn't tell him anything?

- Of course not.

- Did you tell them
about the SBs, Bob?

[dramatic music]

- Yes, I did.

- That's a pity.

- He lied to me, Otto.

I thought...

He softened me up by
pretending to be my friend,

and then he lied.

Wait til I get my hands
on that bastard.

[soldiers chattering]

- There, take it easy, Bob.

[ship hooting]

- I trusted you, Tamiya.

[soldiers cheering]

[soldiers chattering]

- Now, hold it.

- Get out of the way!

- Take it easy, Bob!

[soldiers shrieking]

- [Captain Page] Just
stay out of this.

[gunshot fires]

- Go on, shoot!

Shoot!

[gunshot fires]

[sergeant speaks in
foreign language]

- Nobody asked you to help!

[sergeants speaks
in foreign language]

[gate squeaks]

- How's your arm, Bob?
- Fine, fine.

- What's it like in
the outside world?

- Busy. Listen, fellows.

The Japs had decided
to put the boot in

because they weren't getting
the information they wanted.

But, Tamiya tricked me
and got enough on the SBs

to stop them from torturing us.

We owe him then.

- Where do you hear all this?

- Hayakawa just told me.

- So it appears we
misjudged Tamiya.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Today, the last day,

Water Kempatai,

tomorrow you go.

- What all this
mean, old friend?

- You Rimau,

you, prisoner of war,

war criminal.

- Shit.

- Tomorrow, you go,

Outram Road Jail.

[dramatic music]

[sergeant speaks in
foreign language]

- Right, what a dump!

[sergeant speaks in
foreign language]

[door thuds]

[door thuds]

- Mr. Tamiya.

- [speaks in foreign language]

- He's Major Tachibana
of the legal department.

He's here to investigate
the legal implications

of your Rimau activities.

- [speaks in foreign language]

- State your name and rank.

- Don't be silly,

you know my name and
rank as well as I do.

- State your name and rank.

- Now, I'm not
going to apologize,

but I know why you
tried to trick me.

The men asked me to thank you.

I'm sorry for
knocking you around.

- All right.

But we really must
get on with it.

[men speaking in
foreign language]

- My name is Page,
Robert Charles,

Captain, Australian
Imperial Force.

Regimental number N--

[airplane engine roaring]

[alarm rings]

[bombs falling]

- Are those ours?

- It's the Yanks!

Give it to them!

[soldiers cheering]

- [News Reporter] In
Singapore this morning,

attacks by low flying American bombers,

resulted in a number
of direct hits

on cargo ships anchored
in the straits

and extensive damage to
docking installations

in Keppel Harbor.

But the big news of
the day comes from--

[chains rattle]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[door thuds]

[footsteps creaking]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- How are you?

- I'm well, and you?

How's your arm?

- Not too bad, thanks to you.

I'd come to think of us
as friends, Mr. Tamiya.

That's why I did the block when
I thought you'd tricked me.

- In our circumstances, it is
very difficult to be friends,

but we must try.

Our war news is not good.

It is a fight for time.

- What do you mean?

- Prolong the investigation
as long as you can.

Did you know the war
in Europe has ended?

- Germany surrendered?

- Unconditionally.

- That's marvelous.

Bloody marvelous.

When all this is over,

you'll have to come and
visit us in Australia.

We'll tell them how you tried
to help us here in prison.

- It will be impossible.

We've been told to fight
on until the death.

- But you're a civilian,
that can't apply to you?

- I am Japanese.

- Yes, but, I don't
see the point now.

The war will end. All wars do.

- Do you mind if I call you Bob?

- Of course not.

- Then you must call me Minoru.

- Minoru.

But I thought you blokes
only used first names

with very close friends.

- Yes.

That is our way.

[birds chirping]

[men speaking in
foreign language]

[door thuds]

[men speaking in
foreign language]

- Yes.

- Please.

[man speaks in foreign language]

[door thuds]

- Let's get some air in here.

- Yes, good.

[men shouting]

What are they doing that for?

- They are protesting
their innocence.

- What did they do?

- Blew up some ships
in Singapore Harbor.

[dramatic music]

- When?

- September before last.

Bob, sit down.

This is very important,

so please pay attention.

You are going to trial, but
you have nothing to fear.

General Itagaki
will be generous.

All it requires is
a petition from you

and the other prisoners.

Do you understand?

- Hmm.

- Please, write it now.

You must point out that,

you were carrying out orders

from your superiors
in Australia.

That, as soldiers,
you had to obey.

- We made the
attack on Singapore.

- What?

- September 26th, 1943,
we blew up seven ships.

- That's impossible.
There were no SBs then.

You said so yourself.

- Yes, that's true.
- Then how could you do it?

- By canoe.

- What?

- You cannot kill
innocent people.

- Bob, you mustn't tell
anybody about this.

You would be putting a
noose around your neck.

Keep your mouth shut.

- Okay.

- Write the petition now.

You were under oath.

- Keeping my mouth
shut would be the same

as killing them
with my bare hands.

- Bob,

if you don't write that you
were carrying out orders,

you will be tried
as war criminals.

- Minoru, I'm grateful
for your concern.

But I can't let those men
die for something we did.

- Please, write the petition.

- We made the
attack on Singapore.

They are innocent!

Let them go!

- Bob.

- Minoru,

will you do this?

[dramatic music]

- Bob, I promise you,

I will do something
about the Chinese.

But, please,

you do something
to help yourself.

Bob!

- We knew the risks.

[gavel pounds]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Having studied the indictment
of the prosecutor,

I wish to ask the
accused some questions.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- [Tamiya] Captain Page.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Is it true, that
your men fired

on one of our
police patrol boats,

while your junk was
flying the Japanese flag?

- Yes, some of them did.

[Tamiya speaks in
foreign language]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Is it also true, that
you were all disguised,

as Malay fishermen?

- Some of us were.

[men speaking in
foreign language]

- [Tamiya] Were you carrying
out orders from your superiors

when you did these things?

- Our only orders were to
get into Singapore Harbor

as best we could,

and destroy as many ships and
installations as possible.

[men speaking in
foreign language]

- Is it correct that,

while carrying out your
operation within our territory,

your men didn't wear
any military insignia

or badges of rank?

- Yes it is.

Rank doesn't mean
very much to us.

- [Tamiya] Well, Jesus.

[speaks in foreign language]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- [Tamiya] Were you ordered
not to wear any insignia?

- No.

We made our own decisions.

- Yeah. [speaks in
foreign language]

[airplane engine roaring]

Thank you.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- [Tamiya] Do any
of you accused wish

to add to the evidence?

[Tamiya speaks in
foreign language]

- I call for the summing
up of the prosecutor.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Not only do the accused,

unanimously admit their guilt,

but the statements of the
witnesses and other evidence,

unpreprove that guilt.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- [Tamiya] However, the
heroism they displayed

on this crucial war front
is beyond description.

[men speaks in foreign language]

- They traveled 3000
miles on land and sea

with great determination.

And overcame
incredible hardships

to penetrate deep into regions

under Japanese occupation.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- We do not hesitate to
call them, real heroes.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- This is a feeling of
the Japanese people.

[men speaking in
foreign language]

- It is our duty to ensure,

that their names will remain

in the hearts of Britains and
Australians, for all eternity.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- I therefore consider,

a death sentence should be given

to each of these
accused persons.

[suspenseful music]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[gavel pounds]

- This court will now recess
for a period of 30 minutes.

[man speaks in foreign language]

[suspenseful music]

[men speaks in foreign language]

[gavel pounds]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- [Tamiya] The judgment
will now be given.

[dramatic music]

[Tamiya speaks in
foreign language]

This court, sentences all
of the accused to death.

[dramatic music]

You men are all true heroes. I would
like to watch you march from this court.

Major Ingleton, would you
please issue the order

to leave the court?

- Captain Page.

- Thank you, sir.

- Squad!

Attention!

Left turn!

Quick march!

[boots thudding]

[dramatic music]

[chains rattling]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Thank you.

- It's bloody rough, I think.

- It's the espionage that did it.

- We all knew where
we stood on that score.

- Well, they didn't say
anything about the other raid.

- What's the point?

Can't hang us twice.

- You think they'll hang us?

- Nah, more like a firing squad.

- Or beheading.

That's their way.

- I'll do myself in first.

[men speaks in foreign language]

[boots thudding]

- What's this for?

Why are there new clothes?

- For you.

You are to be executed tomorrow.

- How?

- By the traditional
method of Japanese Bushido.

- Beheading?

You Jap bastard.

- That's enough.

Dougie.

- Okay, Poppa.

- Settle down, everyone.

Minoru, tell us about Bushido.

[dramatic music]

- In Samurai society,
as a mark of respect

due to a person
with high status,

suicide by Harakiri
would be ordered

instead of an execution.

A second...always
accompanies a condemned man,

and would cut off his head
to ease the pain of dying.

Thus, the relationship
between the man to die

and his second was
not one of enmity,

rather, it was a
relationship of reliable

and trust and friends.

[dramatic music]

[chains rattling]

- Beheading.

I can live without that.

- Doesn't make much
difference how they do it,

dead is dead.

- I'd rather go out fighting.

- Look, fellas,

if dying's all that's
left, that's it.

[hums]

♪ Under the shade
of a coolibah tree, ♪

♪ And he sang as he watched

♪ And waited 'til
his Billy boiled, ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing,
Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ Waltzing Matilda,
waltzing Matilda, ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing
Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ And he sang as he watched

♪ And waited 'til
his Billy boiled, ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing
Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ Waltzing Matilda,
waltzing Matilda, ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing
Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ And he sang as he watched

♪ And waited 'til
his Billy boiled, ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing
Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ Waltzing Matilda,
waltzing Matilda ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing
Matilda, with me. ♪

♪ And he sang as he watched

♪ And waited 'til
his Billy boiled ♪

♪ You'll come a-waltzing
Matilda, with me. ♪

[door thuds]

[men speaking in
foreign language]

- [Soldier] "The Lord is my
shepherd, I shall not want.

"He maketh me to lie
down in green pastures.

"He leadeth me
through still waters."

"He shelters me
from my enemies."

"He leadeth me through the
valley of the shadow of death."

"And I fear no evil."

"Our Father, who art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on
Earth as it is Heaven.

Give us this day,
our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive them who
trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil,

for thine is the kingdom,
and the power and the glory,

forever and ever, amen."

[cock crows]

[dramatic music]

[birds chirping]

[cock crows]

[birds chirping]

[dog barks]

[birds chirping]

[door thuds]

[boots thudding]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[boots thudding]

[car engine roaring]

[birds chirping]

[car engine roaring]

[dramatic music]

[car engine roaring]

[door thuds]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[birds chirping]

- "Jesus wept."

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Fellas.

[dramatic music]

[men speaking in
foreign language]

[dramatic music]

[birds chirping]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- You will stand easy.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- You are also free to smoke.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Dismissed.

[boots thudding]

- Hey, Bob.

- Good to know you.

- See you, Bob.

- Good luck, mate.

- Willie.

- All the best, Bob.

- [Sergeant] Seconds fall in.

[dramatic music]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- The officers in front of you,

are your executioners.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Each man must state
his name and rank.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Major Reginald
Middleton Ingleton.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Captain Robert Charles Page.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Lieutenant Walter
George Carey.

[man speaks in foreign language]

- Lieutenant Albert
Leslie Sargent.

[motorbike engine roaring]

[man speaks in foreign language]

[birds chirping]

[man speaks in foreign language]

- See you.

You old Pommy bastard.

[birds chirping]

[bike engine roaring]

[sergeants speaking
in foreign language]

[bike engine roaring]

[boots thud]

[sergeants speaking
in foreign language]

[birds chirping]

[Tamiya shrieks]

[dramatic music]