The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï (1952) by Pierre Boulle. The film uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943. The cast included William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, and Sessue Hayakawa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai
“The Death Railway itself starts in Nong Pladuk, about 50km west of Bangkok, where the line meets the Bangkok – Singapore express route. From Nong Pladuk it weaves slowly northwestwards through dust bowl suburbian planes to Kanchanaburi… “
https://soultravelblog.com/travelling-the-thailand-burma-railway/
The Railway Man
Based on his best-selling memoir, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II.
Decades later, Lomax discovers that the Japanese interpreter he holds responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him, and his haunting past. Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, and starring Academy Award-winner Colin Firth, Jeremy Irvine, and Academy Award-winner Nicole Kidman, the film is a powerful tale of survival, love and redemption.
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If only he had kept up his relationship with his daughters or given some explaination why he didnt do this..
An huge unspoken gap, unexplained and written off…
But wanna remark that you have a very decent website, I like
the layout it actually stands out.