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The Camp on Blood Island

The Camp on Blood Island

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 15, 1958

Runtime

1h 21m

Genres

War, Thriller, Drama

User Score

66%

Original Title

The Camp on Blood Island

Production Companies

Hammer Film Productions

Director

Val Guest

Description

Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.