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Film Details - Blood Oath Productions , 1990
Producers:
Charles Waterstreet (Producer)
Denis Whitburn (Producer)
Annie Bleakley (Co-producer)
Greg Coote (Executive Producer)
Graham Burke (Executive Producer)
John Tarnoff (Executive Producer)
Production Companies:
Blood Oath Productions
Village Roadshow Pictures
Sovereign Pictures
Siege
Director of Photography:
Russell Boyd
Editors:
Nicholas Beauman
Production Designers:
Bernard Hides
Composer:
David McHugh
Music:
Stewart D'Arrietta (composer: additional music)
Cast:
Incl. Bryan Brown (Captain Cooper), George Takei (Vice-Admiral Baron Takahashi), Terry O'Quinn (Major Beckett), John Bach (Major Roberts), Toshi Shioya (Lt Tanaka), John Clarke (Sheedy), Deborah Kara Unger (Sister Littell), John Polson (Private Jimmy Fenton), Russell Crowe (Lt Corbett), Nicholas Eadie (Sgt Keenan), Jason Donovan (Private Talbot), Tetsu Watanabe (Captain Ikeuchi), Sokyu Fujita (Mr Matsugae), Ray Barrett (President of the Bench), Kazuhiro Muroyama (Lt Noburo Kamura), David Argue (Flight Lt Eddy Fenton), Yuichiro Senga (Lt Shimada), Andrew Booth (Private Mitchell), Malcolm Cork (Australian Soldier), Donal Gibson (Corporal Patterson), Shane McNamara (Major Roberts's Aide) Peter Waterstreet (Flight Sgt O'Donnell), Tim Reuther (Flight Lt Smith), Matthew Keyes (Corporal Rogers), Christina Ongley (Nurse Pearson).
Release Dates:
26 July 1990 (Australia). Released in the USA (26 July 1990), United Kingdom (15 March 1991), Finland (22 March 1991), Sweden (14 June 1991), and Germany (4 July 1991).
2. Released in Australia on videocassette format in 1991 by Premiere. Released on DVD format ca. 2002 by Roadshow Entertainment.
Location:
- Queensland (including Warner Roadshow Studios, Gold Coast)
Awards:
- Australian Film Institute Awards (1990), Best Achievement in Costume Design - Roger Kirk (winner)
- Australian Film Institute Awards (1990), Best Film
- Australian Film Institute Awards (1990), Best Director - Stephen Wallace (nomination)
- Australian Film Institute Awards (1990), Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Toshi Shioya (nomination)
- Australian Film Institute Awards (1990), Best Actor in a Supporting Role - John Poulson (nomination)
- Australian Film Institute Awards (1990), Best Achievement in Production Design - Bernard Hides (nomination)
- Australian Film Institute Awards (1990), Best Achievement in Cinematogrpahy - Ruseell Boyd (nomination)
- Australian Film Institute Awards (1990), Best Achievement in Sound - Ben Osmo, Gethin Creagh and Roger Savage (winners)
Notes:
Also known as Blods Ed (Sweden), Blutiger Schwur (Germany), Giuramento di Sangue (Italy), Juramento de Sangue (Brazil), Juramento de Sangre (Spain), Prisoners of the Sun (USA), and Verivala (Finland)
Settings:
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Ambon,
Maluku,
cIndonesia,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
