Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film concentrates on the brutality as well as scary that the allied detainees were revealed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and beat opponent. This harrowing drama focuses on the deviations of legal as well as moral interpretations when 2 opposing societies clash. Although imaginary, this was among the earliest films to deal genuinely with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Secondly War.