![]() ![]() ![]() You will agonise with him when his loss of face leads him into death.Helen Morse as "Jean Paget", pretty but not a great beauty (she resembles Sigourney Weaver a bit)registers just the right amount of spunk and winsomeness as the occasion demands. Yuki Shimoda is notable as "Gunso Mifune", one of the guards assigned to accompany the women on their agonising trek. But this excellent cast carries the story forward very well with generally good production values accompanying their work. It is a very close realisation of the story, suffering only from editorial faults commonly found in TV movies: choppiness and episodic progression. ![]() Only the full 5 hour miniseries version tells the story properly. Beware heavily cut versions sometimes shown on cable or satellite, running anywhere from 95 minutes to 2 hours. Apparently this Australian film based on Nevil Shute's novel exists in more than one form. ![]()
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