The Railway man
(DVD)

Based on the book by Eric Lomax.

Special features include: feature commentary with Jonathan Teplitzky and Andy Paterson ; the making of The Railway man.

Director of photography, Garry Phillips ; editor, Martin Connor ; music, David Hirschfelder.

Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgard, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sam Reid, Tanroh Ishida.

Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor, Japanese officer Takashi Nagase, from the prison camp, in an attempt to let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate.

Rated R.

DVD ; widescreen ; Dolby Digital 5.1.

In English dialogue ; English and Spanish subtitles ; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.