TY - ADVS AU - Boyce,Frank Cottrel AU - Brown,Chris AU - Curbishley,Bill AU - Firth,Colin AU - Irvine,Jeremy AU - Ishida,Tanroh AU - Kidman,Nicole AU - Paterson,Andy AU - Reid,C.S. AU - Sanada,Hiroyuki AU - Skarsgård,Stellan AU - Teplitzky,Jonathan AU - Lomax,Eric ED - Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc. ED - Creative Scotland (Organization) ED - Lionsgate UK, ED - Pictures in Paradise, ED - Screen Australia ED - Screen NSW (New South Wales) ED - Screen Queensland (Queensland) ED - Silver Reel, ED - Trinfold, ED - Weinstein Company TI - The railway man SN - 0109411889 PY - 2014///] CY - Beverly Hills, CA PB - Anchor Bay Entertainment KW - Lomax, Eric KW - Burma-Siam Railroad KW - History KW - Drama KW - Prisoners of war KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Thailand KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Personal narratives KW - Atrocities KW - Conscript labor KW - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese KW - Biographical films KW - lcgft KW - Feature films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - War films N1 - Based on the book by Eric Lomax; Originally released as a motion picture in 2013; Special features: Feature commentary with director Jonathan Teplitzky and co-writer/producer Andy Paterson; the making of Railway Man; Costume designer, Lizzy Gardiner ; film editor, Martin Connor ; production designer, Steven Jones-Evans ; director of photography, Garry Phillips; Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgård, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sam Reid, Tanroh Ishida; MPAA rating: R, for disturbing prisoner of war violence N2 - Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor, Japanese officer Takashi Nagase, from the prison camp, in an attempt to let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate ER -