my father be a prisoner on the death railway so the film have a special meaning for me . i think that it be a pretty accurate portrayal of what happen obviously much more truthful than lean river kwai epic . i do not think that it really have a message other than to depict man inhumanity to man . i do not find it uplift in any way and i be rather thankful for that . there can be no justification whatsoever for the treatment of the allied prisoner and local slave labour . the code of the bushido might explain the obscenity that occur but it be not a justification . my father go to his grave hat the japanese and that be hardly surprising . no forgive and forget for him .