Since I'm currently reading a book on actor Sessue Hayakawa it is appropriate for me to at least watch some of this work. The nearest and cheapest I could find is the war drama Three Came Home, which is in the public domain and downloadable for free. Hayakawa was at the height of his fame during the nineteen teens so this may not be the best example, but I will go on about his work and the book I am reading at a later date.
Three Came Home is about a family living in Burma, when the Japanese arrive they are soon transferred to POW camps. The film reminds a lot of the BBC series Tenko however less like ahttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif soap opera and more cinematic which gave me the feeling of a better realism. Hayakawa plays a Japanese Colonel who is a fan of a book written by Claudette Colbert's character which is probably the key to her survival. The relationship portrayed by these two in actual fact isn't to dissimilar to Burt Kwouk relation to his prisoners in Tenko.
The film is enjoyable and probably one of the finer examples, if but few, of a woman POW camp in the war. The copy I download unfortunately went out of sync in the middle so I had skip about 20 minutes though thankfully I didn't get too lost. It is certainly a film i will have to see again.
The film downloable from archive.org in divX format, but be warned with sound problems:
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