Great site about a Japanese POW in the USSR

[GeorgeP]

I wanted to pass this along to all those interested in the experiences Japanese POWs had after surrendering to the Soviets in 1945. Lots of interesting drawings showing one POWs life in a labor camp in the Soviet Union and the interactions the Japanese had with Ukrainian civilians, Soviet doctors, German POWs, and others. An interesting glimpse at a time in history that is not often brought up and discussed.

http://kiuchi.jpn.org/en/nobindex.htm


Tom

[Nick Komiya]

If you want to see a movie about it, here is a classic http://www.1channel.ch/watch-2693011...n-no-joken-III They have all 3 parts of "The Human Condition" a total of 9 hours, but part 3 is about being wiped out by Russian tanks and trying to escape south through Manchuria and finally falling into Russian captivity. It's like the latter part of the Cross of Iron with a Stalingrad ending. It is a really depressing war movie. It used to be shown every year during the new year holidays in Japan, probably because it was an easy way to fill 9 hours of programming.

[GeorgeP]

Thanks Nick!


Tom

[Hue]

Maybe this has been mentioned already here? ...You might want to internet look up Korean movie "My Way", about 2 Koreans drafted into Japanese army, captured by Soviets, forced into army, captured by Germans, forced into army, captured by Allies at D-Day. Supposedly based on true story. Unfortunately only available here on Blu-Ray. I will get it eventually. It's Korea's most expensive movie ever and a big all-out deal. I am interested to see how realistic tank and German army details were. There are some articles and movie trailers available on the net.

[Nick Komiya]

Yes, that movie has been mentioned on the forum. However, whether the story is true is highly questionable. They were supposedly drafted by the Japanese and got sent to Nomonhan, but Koreans were still not conscripted into the Japanese army at that time, so the start is already not correct. Neither is there documented proof nor any testimony from those men themselves. According to my Korean friend "The most possible explanation is that he was one of the ethnic Koreans uprooted from the Russian far east and resettled in the Central Asia by Stalin in 1930's. Some of them were conscripted in the Red Army(two or three ethnic Koreans became 'Hero of the Soviet Union' during the War), got captured and drafted in either the Valssov legion or Turkistan legion. ". True or not, it will still be an interesting movie.

[Nick Komiya]

Hey, I just started to watch My Way on the net. It's at the same site as the Human Condition. The long haircuts are out of place as in Cross of Iron, but so far it's fun to watch.

[Ryukyutunnelrat]

I took a chance and rented the movie and actually enjoyed it. Well worth the time to watch if even if accurate or not.

David.

[Nick Komiya]

Once you dismiss it as fiction it is quite an adventure story. I was impressed that the dialogue stayed Japanese throughout the film and that the Korean actors all did a good job speaking it. I never expected to see a Korean movie with Korean actors speaking Japanese all the way through.

[Ryukyutunnelrat]

Originally Posted by Nick Komiya

Once you dismiss it as fiction it is quite an adventure story. I was impressed that the dialogue stayed Japanese throughout the film and that the Korean actors all did a good job speaking it. I never expected to see a Korean movie with Korean actors speaking Japanese all the way through.

I was also quite surprised with Korean actors speaking Japanese throughout the movie. Great story line from beginning to end.