Just say you have another engagement.
Mistake. They'll do something awful...
if we don't go.
I know what this is.
What?
This is all the younger girls-
all the more attractive ones.
Am I on there?
No! No! No!
This is Japanese Officer's Club.
This is Japanese officer men.
Most were educated and refined.
Some speak English...
like Englishmen from Oxford.
What rubbish.
Japanese officer look for volunteer...
to work in club.
Volunteer have plenty of food...
and satin sheet.
And we're the acceptable volunteers?
That is correct interpretation.
Disgusting, is what I call it.
I'd rather kiss a leper from Leopoldville...
before I let any of that lot touch me.
Well, we don't have to stay.
They're not forcing us.
Right.
Our own satin sheets?
Ladies who stay in beautiful house...
will please to walk in direction indicated.
No. You can't be serious.
Too right I am.
You know bloody well...
we've got Buckley's chance...
of getting through the war...
in that camp.
You think I want to end up...
in some shallow grave...
in Sumatra?
The war's going to be finished soon.
You said that over a year ago.
Bett!
Hot water. Ahem.
Is there hot water in this club?
Plenty hot water.
Plenty soap.
Soap! Soap!
It's been so long.
Oh...
Topsy, don't be absurd.
Japanese officers gonna be any worse...
than most of the creeps we've all known?
Probably.
What about Marty?
Well, what he don't know-
Then what about the vocal orchestra?
I'll be an alto short if you go.
Are you asking me to give up food and soap...
and God knows what else, so I can starve and sing?
Yes.
I suppose I am.
Lady...
please.
A good Catholic sister like you.
I just can't believe you're not more-
Censorious?
I'm not their judge.
If they want to survive, maybe they will this way.
The will to survive is very strong,
stronger than anything.
I just can't believe what you're saying.
Very well, Phyllis.
I've just lost four sopranos in that lot.
You're going to have to join us now.
I'm not interested in your bloody choir.
Well, you could stop lying around and whinging...
and jolly well get interested.
Well.
What about you two?
Oh, no, not me. I-
Susan?
Look, to be honest,
I don't like the kind of music you're doing.
It's got no tune.
You really don't know...
what you're talking about.
No?
No.
All right, now, altos, it's two notes.
? Mmm?
All right?
Ahem.
? Mmm?
Yep.
How many do you have today?
Two. I found them both just staring up...
like this.
Just wait till Mrs. Van der Weyden dies.
She's so big with beri-beri, it will take 10 women...
just to carry her out of the hut.
Yeah. We'll have to jump on her...
to get her in the coffin.
Dr. Verstak?
Yes. Over here.
So, how it goes, the English ladies' choir?
I can't tell.
Lots of stopping and starting, it seems.
Not much singing.
You sound very disapproving.
Oh, but I'm not.
It will keep the ladies busy,
and that is good,
but the noise they will make!
It is not for someone...
who's heard the great choirs of Leipzig and Vienna.
What are you doing?
You're pulling out their gold fillings.
Quite right, my dear.
They are of no further use to their owners.
You should not be so squeamish...
with all that you have seen.
I think this takes the cake.
So this is how...
you get your whiskey and cigarettes.
That is so,
and the small amount of medicine that we have.
How do you think we get that,
the Japanese give it to us?
I trade with the guards.
Ah!
Amazing, how strong.
Anyway, it's best you know all this...
in case something happen to me.
What do you mean?
I should carry on doing this?
Only if you want some of the ladies in the camp...
to stay alive. Ah!
So what do you sing?
Oh, um...
it's all stuff I've never heard.
Oh, uh, some...
The- The New World?
Dvorák?
Yeah.
They sing Dvorák?
Yes, I think.
You don't know Dvorák?
What? They don't teach you anything in Australia?
Only about sheep?
Aah!
Aah! Uhh!
I have perhaps seen you before.
I think not.
I think so.
The insolent lady to whom I gave a ride.
Japanese soldiers never attack women.
You refused to bow to him.
He struck you on the face, quite rightly,
then you struck him.
No. He was drunk. I could smell the sake.
He grabbed me from behind-
Silence!
Uhh!
Colonel Hirota say incident with the lady...
most regrettable,
but is death for strike Japanese soldier.
Lady have very bad manners.
Manners very important to Japanese people.
That is all.
You're starving and beating woman and children.
You steal our Red Cross parcels for yourselves.
You don't give us any medicine for the sick,
not even the quinine for the bloody malaria everyone's got.
You make us work like slaves.
You don't even let us write to our families,
and you have the cheek to sit there...
and lecture us on good manners!
Tomorrow, lady will be executed.
Please, please!
You tell Colonel Hirota that I saw what happened.
The colonel knows that I'm a nun,
and nuns never tell lies.
The lady only raises her hands...
to protect herself-
like this- and then she hit him by accident,
and he fell back into the latrine.
Colonel Hirota say he regret,
but the incident all dealt with by Captain Tanaka.
Captain Tanaka with Kempei-Tai.
So Captain Tanaka is in charge of this camp?
I understood it was you, Colonel Hirota.
Two broken ribs is not so bad.
Better than...
Yes?
You will not be able to move around...
for maybe a week, maybe two.
That's impossible.
Everything's arranged for Saturday.
It's our anniversary.
Anniversary?
We've been here two years.
Oh,
what an anniversary.
Well, you do as you like.
I'm only the doctor.
I told a lie,
but God will forgive me.
I think He will even congratulate me.
I have some medicine.
Come.
Cheers.
Oh!
Sister.
Whiskey?
I love whiskey.
I'm a nun, not a saint.
And you, are you a saint?
No, no. That would make me fall over.
Oh, I've never drunk whiskey before.
Let us hope that you do worse things...
in your life, darling. Prost.
Bottoms up. Prost.
Faith, you can do very little with it...
and nothing without it.
Cheers.
Yes, Japanese whiskey, not scotch.
Still, we can't have everything.
You got some lipstick?
Orange?
All the rage in Palembang.
Look!
Oh!
Look at these!
Oh, gee, it's been a long time since I kissed a man.
There's nothing nicer.
Only one thing.
- Oh? Heh heh heh! - Heh heh!
You look lovely, Helen.
Some man will be very lucky one day.
Not if we stay here.
Then we meet no one.
We shall not meet anyone.
Shall.
But we won't stay here.
One day we shall all go home.
Ja.
There's gonna be trouble.
Japs won't take this lying down.
Come on.
I'm fallin' down like an old house.
Would you look at me legs?
They look like that little wooden man.
Pinocchio.
Aye.
That's the fellow.
Uh-oh. Winner...
of the 1944 Dale Carnegie Charm School Award-
Tokyo division.
You!
No go!
Stay!
Topsy.
You like?
It's for you, from Chinese man.
"My darling, I hope this finds you well.
I'm in the camp at Talang-Batu.
I'm escaping with some of the Aussies.
See you in Sydney. Hotel Australia.
All my love".
Bugger the emperor.
- Edna? - Yeah.
Fancy having a flag with a poached egg on it.
Colonel Hirota proud to report further victory...
of Japanese armed forces.
American imperialists...
removed from many Pacific Island,
and Australia bombed many times.
Australian government...
want to make peace with Japan.
That'll be the day.
Churchill and Roosevelt,
number ten.
Emperor Hirohito, Son of Heaven...
number one.
You!
Come here.
Oh, no.
At least it's not me.
You spoke.
What did you say?
I said, "Warm, isn't it, for this time of year?"
Sorry.
When you say to Captain Tanaka...
that all wars end,
you tell him that perhaps the invincible Japanese Army...
will lose this one.
Who knows?
And if they do,
his treatment of this young woman...
will not result in the Allies...
building any shrines to him.
Maybe they even hang him.
Yes.
I do not think you are in a position...
to threaten Captain Tanaka.
Not a threat.
Advice only.
I'm his ally.
You tell him.
I think it's impossible.
Oh, I can understand this,
but, you try,
yes?
Uhh!
Lift her up.
Oh, my dear...
that's one to tell your grandchildren.
Oh, I knew he was bluffing.
Yeah, show-off.
It's just humming, that's all.
Anybody could do that.
Miss Drummond.
Come.
Bravo!
Marvelous.
I loved it.
Brava!
Do you know, Miss Drummond,
I just realized I don't know your Christian name.
It's Daisy.
I've always hated it.
I wanted to be called Margaret.
Well, then, Margaret it is.
Why not?
A gift...
from Colonel Hirota.
Soap.
Oh, thank you.
Oh, this will go a long way among 300 of us.
Colonel Hirota say you will please to sing...
one Japanese folk song.
Tell him no.
Oh...
but this is very difficult to say.
Tell him my appreciation of the Japanese culture...
is at a low ebb.
I think I make some other reason.
As you wish.
You don't hate them, do you?
Why not?
I've tried, but I just can't...
bring myself to hate people.
The worse they behave,
the sorrier I feel for them.
Are you comfortable, Mrs. O'Riordan?
I'm all right. Gently.
No go!
Boys no go! Too big.
- Go men's camp. - What?
No!
Mom, please!
It'll be all right!
Don't let anybody push you around.
Ugh!
So, Mr. Tomio...
where are we going now?
Yes, what's happening?
I don't know.
I think you do know.
No, I don't.
Tell us something, Mr. Tomio.
Be a man.
General MacArthur back in Philippines.
Chase Japanese soldier all over place.
Try it.
Ohh!
I always wanted to be an engineer,
but my father wanted me to be a nun.
Don't worry. I love God,
even though I sometimes wonder what He's doing.
Here.
Arigato.
If my guys are coming,
why don't the Japs just go...
and leave us here?
I don't think they've ever done anything...
that made much sense.
It's the satin sheet brigade.
I knew I should've joined that bunch.
I think maybe we all should've.
Up there is the mountains of Loebok Lingau.
My father would take us there...
in the summer.
In the jungle, there are many tigers.
At night we close all the windows and doors,
or they come in the house.
I lie there and I hear them...
walk up and down the verandah.
Pom, pom.
So heavy they are.
I can hear them breathing...
through the other side of the shutter.
One morning, I opened the door...
and a big tiger is sleeping on the front stoop.
Oh.
Ahh.
I spent my summers...
at my family's home in Dorset.
No tigers.
Just rain.
Soft days, we called them.
That's where I met Dennis.
We were 17,
and he was my school friend's brother.
I thought he was the best-looking boy...
I'd ever seen,
but it took him so long to kiss me,
I thought it was never going to happen.
And then it did?
Oh, yes!
Ha ha ha!
We were in my father's study.
I nearly fainted.
We were so young,
they didn't want us to see each other,
so we pretended we weren't in love.
So you keep seeing each other?
Oh, yes.
We didn't fool anybody.
I realized love is like a flame.
It burns and is visible to all.
Ah.
Be careful.
Are you all right?
Is Susan here?
Ugh!
If I ever get out of this,
I'll never say a word against New Jersey.
You'll never get out of this.
None of us will ever leave Sumatra.
Come on. A little towards me.
That's it.
Snake!
Aah! Where?
Snake.
Kill it. We'll eat it.
Aah!
Don't give up now.
Dennis "vouldn't" want that.
Wouldn't.
Rosemary, remember, we are going to Lord's...
to watch the gentlemens play cricket.
Then we have some tea.
Snake's not so bad.
The grasshopper's delicious.
Wonder what Bing Crosby's up to now.
Bing Crosby? Why?
I miss him. That's all.
Beaut he is, Bing Crosby.
We must get the orchestra started again.
We've got to have a rehearsal.
Oh.
Yes, of course, Margaret.
Show the Japanese we're still alive.
Still got some spirit left.
That bloody choir.
Totally exhausted everyone.
They won't be able to find enough people now...
for a barbershop quartet.
Oh, shut up, Harriet.
Shut up?
You were bullied into joining by Adrienne.
That's true.
Best thing that ever happened to me.
Here you are, Mummy.
Mummy, you have to eat something.
No, dear.
I really don't mind dying.
No.
I learned a great deal in the camp.
I did nothing, you know, in Singapore.
Mummy, you're not going to die.
Yes, dear...
I am.
I'm really sorry that I won't see...
your dear father again.
I have so much to tell him.
So much.
Doctor.
Rosemary.
The beautiful English girl.
Paradise Road.
Tomorrow...
perhaps tonight.
Sometimes God reaches down...
and pulls the wings off his butterflies.
Wh-What is it?
She doesn't want to live anymore.
Perhaps now she realizes the world is not a place...
where lovers are reunited and good always wins.
She saw her husband at the railway yard.
The great love affair.
I can't say I'd pine away over any of my husbands.
If I fall in love,
then I hope it is like that.
Good luck, my dear.
"Father, in captivity...
we would lift our prayer to Thee.
Keep us ever in Thy love.
Grant that daily we may prove...
those who place their trust in Thee,
more than conquerors may be.
Give us patience to endure.
Keep our hearts serene and pure.
Grant us courage, charity,
greater faith, humility.
Readiness to own Thy will,
be we free or captive still".
Amen.
What are you doing?
The French eat snails, don't they?
Yes, but I think those ones will make you sick.
I'm here, Margaret.
You can't die now.
Not now.
She's asking for something.
"The Lord is my Shepherd.
I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul.
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness...
for His name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley...
of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for Thou art with me.
Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me...
in the presence of mine enemies.
Thou anointest my head with oil.
My cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy will follow me...
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell...
in the House of the Lord forever".
That's what I wanted.
Amen.
The war...
is over.
Who won?
Once more...
we can be friend.
I have done my best for you.
I know,
not enough.
But I could do no more.
We weren't number ten.
Oh, Tillie!
Does this mean...
it's back to picking up groceries, laundry,
and all that? My God!
For you, my dear.
For me, it is luxury hotels...
and limousine cars. Yes.
Dr. Verstak.
Yes, Macarthy.
Are you really a doctor?
Yes and no.
My husband is a medical doctor.
I'm doctor of philosophy.
I hurt no one. Maybe I help.
Is wanting to survive so bad?
Susan.
Dear Susan.
Well...
we made it.
Yes, we did.
Some of us.
I can't believe it!