Blood Oath

Blood Oath

🎞️ Movie 108 min AU
โ˜… 6.4 /10 1990

Where does war end and murder begin?

The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. Capt. Cooper is the chief prosecutor. In a mass grave, the bodies of 300 executed servicemen have been unearthed. Cooper assumes that the massacre was ordered by Baron Takahashi, Japanese commander on Ambon. But the one potential witness has gone mad and is due to be shipped back to Australia. No captured airmen were found alive on the island at all, not even the four-man crew of a reconnaissance plane shot down late in the War. Takahashi is returned to the island in the custody of an American officer, Maj. Beckett. But there is little evidence with which to prosecute the Baron. Cooper thinks he could make a case for the missing airmen if only their bodies could be located. And why does Maj. Beckett appear interested in not seeing Takahashi convicted? Cooper gets a break when Lt. Tanaka, a communications officer and a Christian, surrenders himself...

Cast

Bryan Brown
Bryan Brown
Captain Cooper
George Takei
George Takei
Vice-Admiral Baron Takahashi
Terry O'Quinn
Terry O'Quinn
Major Beckett
John Bach
John Bach
Major Roberts
Toshi Shioya
Toshi Shioya
Lt. Tanaka
John Clarke
John Clarke
Sheedy
Deborah Kara Unger
Deborah Kara Unger
Sister Littell
John Polson
John Polson
Private Jimmy Fenton
Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe
Lt. Corbett
Nicholas Eadie
Nicholas Eadie
Sgt. Keenan
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David McHugh
Composer
Russell Boyd
Russell Boyd
Cinematographer