![]() He meets with Nagase once again, and in an emotional scene the two accept one another's apologies and embrace. Lomax finally frees Nagase, throws his knife into the nearby river and returns to Britain.Īfter receiving a heartfelt letter from Nagase confessing his feelings of guilt, Lomax returns, with Patricia, to Thailand. Nagase soon reveals that the Japanese (including himself) were brainwashed into thinking the war would be a victorious one for them, and that he never knew the high casualties caused by the Imperial Japanese Army. Lomax threatens to cut Nagase's throat and finally pushes him into a bamboo cage, of the kind in which Lomax and many other POWs had been placed as punishment. Out of guilt, Nagase does not resist, but Lomax redirects the blow at the last moment. The situation builds up to the point where Lomax prepares to smash Nagase's arm, using a club and a clamp designed by the Japanese for that purpose and now used as war exhibits. When he finally confronts his former captor, Lomax first questions him in the same way Nagase and his men had interrogated him years before. Lomax travels alone to Thailand and returns to the scene of his torture to confront Nagase 'in an attempt to let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate'. ![]() Before Lomax can act on this information, Finlay, unable to handle his memories of his experiences, commits suicide by hanging himself from a bridge. His best friend and fellow ex-POW Finlay brings him evidence that one of their captors, a translator for the Japanese secret police Takashi Nagase, is now working as a tourist guide in the very camp where he translated for the Kempetai as they tortured British POWs. Thirty years later, Lomax is still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, though strongly supported by his wife Patricia, whom he had met on one of his many train excursions, a true railway enthusiast. Lomax and his surviving comrades are finally rescued by the British Army. ![]() In fact, however, his only intention had been to use the device as a morale booster for himself and his fellow prisoner-slaves. Apparently, he had fallen under suspicion of being a spy, for supposedly using the British news broadcast receiver as a transmitter of military intelligence. The torture depicted includes beatings, food deprivation and waterboarding. ![]() During his time in the camp as one of the Far East prisoners of war, Lomax is tortured by the Kempeitai (military secret police) for building a radio receiver from spare parts. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor, Japanese officer Takashi Nagase, from the prison camp, “in an attempt let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate”.īeside Kidman, who plays Firth’s wife Patti, the rest of The Railway Man cast includes Stellan Skarsgard as his best friend, Hiroyuki Sanada as the above mentioned Japanese officer and Jeremy Irvine as the younger Eric Lomax.During the Second World War, Eric Lomax is a British officer who is captured by the Japanese in Singapore and sent to a Japanese POW camp, where he is forced to work on the Thai- Burma Railway north of the Malay Peninsula. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. During his time in the camp he is tortured by an officer and meets a fellow POW. In other words, Firth plays Lomax, a British officer who is captured by the Japanese in Singapore and sent to a POW camp, where he is forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. ![]() So yes, we are talking about a true story of a victim from World War II’s Death Railway who sets out to find those responsible for his torture. Teplitzky directed the whole thing from a script written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson, but just in case you forgot – the movie is based on the best-selling autobiography by Eric Lomax. We already had a little chat about Jonathan Teplitzky‘s upcoming The Railway Man, which is set to premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Today, we’re here to add more pics to our little war-drama gallery, and take a much better look at the leading duo – Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. ![]()
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