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Return from the River Kwai (1989)
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13 July 1989 (West Germany) morePlot:
A group of war prisoners from the Kwai bridge building camp undertake a harsh journey to Japan. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Shameful waste of cinema resources moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Nick Tate | ... | Cmdr.Hunt |
 | Timothy Bottoms | ... | Seaman Miller |
 | George Takei | ... | Lt. Tanaka |
 | Edward Fox | ... | Maj. Benford |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Alexander Blaise | ... | Exec. Officer Clancy (as Blaise Alexandre) |
| Simplicio Cahilig | ... | Old Vietnamese Man |
| Michael Dante | ... | Cmdr. Davidson |
| Patricia Edmondson | ... | Lady in Saigon |
| Denholm Elliott | ... | Col. Grayson |
| Richard Graham | ... | Sgt. Perry |
| Jimmy Guerrero | ... | Japanese Businessman |
| Paul Holm | ... | Benford's Patient |
| Ryusuke Inoue | ... | Japanese Boy |
| Sachiko Inoue | ... | Japanese Mother |
| Koji Kato | ... | Japanese Soldier |
| Motoko Kobayashi | ... | Japanese Soldier |
 | Michael Kostroff | ... | Radioman In Submarine |
| Ronnie Lazaro | ... | Boonrod |
| Sheila McLaglen | ... | Lady in Saigon |
| Lolita Mirpuri | ... | Lady in Saigon |
| Masato Nagamori | ... | Lt. Yamashita |
| Tatsuya Nakadai | ... | Maj. Harada |
 | Chris Penn | ... | Lt. Crawford (as Christopher Penn) |
| Kashinobu Shibata | ... | Japanese Soldier |
| Etsushi Takahashi | ... | Capt. Ozawa |
| Andres Tepongco | ... | Anon |
| Anna Maria Tirol | ... | Meo Girl |
| Masachi Tomori | ... | Japanese Soldier |
| Pierre Valderon | ... | Frenchman in Saigon |
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Iceland:16 | West Germany:12 (f) (cut version) | West Germany:16 (f) (original rating) | Finland:K-16 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13Fun Stuff
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| Best not to look at this as a sequel to the David Lean Epic | clewis100 |
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Good money and talent squandered in badly scripted, acted and directed action. To even call this nonsense anything to do with the 'River Kwai' shames the original film and dishonors the memory of the atrocities which occured trying to build the ill-fated Burma Railway.