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6.1/10   93 votes
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Writer:
Richard Mason (novel)
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Release Date:
14 July 1958 (Denmark) more
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Tagline:
LOVE THAT WAS FORBIDDEN . . . but could not be denied!
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Cast

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Dirk Bogarde ... Flight Lt. Michael Quinn
Yoko Tani ... Sabbi
Ronald Lewis ... Leader Fenwick
John Fraser ... Officer Peter Munroe
Anthony Bushell ... Brigadier
Heihachirô Ôkawa ... Lt. Nakamura (as Henry Okawa)
Marne Maitland ... Bahadur
Michael Medwin ... Officer Lamb
Richard Leech ... Hobson
Tony Wager ... Moss (as Anthony Wager)
Tadashi Ikeda ... Itsumi San
Yôichi Matsue ... Cpl. Mori

Donald Pleasence ... Doctor
Joy Michael ... First Nurse
Avice Landone ... Second Nurse
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115 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Referenced in Absolute Beginners (1986) more
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Inscrutable, 9 December 2008
6/10
Author: dsewizzrd-1 from Australia

Dirk Bogarde is an officer during World War II learning Japanese in India in order to do intelligence work on the Indian front.

While there he gets a Japanese teacher, who is full of the inscrutable and mysterious East, like a Chinese motorcycle. Some scenes are pretty fruity in between the Indian travelogue and the first scene doesn't fit into the plot properly, in fact it doesn't seem to have any relevance at all (lost in editing perhaps?).

In the war scenes, the Japanese are honourable, like in "Bridge Across The River Kwai", not at all like they actually were, and the British are all very 'pukka' and respectable - it's strictly popular fare.

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