Internees of Kampili

Internees of Kampili (1960)

Drama

In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili. Kampili is located some ten kilometers outside Macassar on the island of Celebes. Eighteen-hundred Allied women and children were interned for the duration of the war. Yamaji's iron rule for camp administration is : No violence; hands off internees; He also endeavors to establish self-administration by internees while aiming at a self-supporting camp economy within six months. His ingenuity gains the camp numerous pigs to enrich their diet, and sewing machines with to make fatigue uniforms for the military. The internees are grateful for what little aid he can give them. As the tides of war changes, Allied planes bomb the camp in error. But the surrender of Japan changes everything, and the internees join forces to save their former camp commander from the gallows.

Director: Manao Horiuchi
Writer: Katsuhito Inomata

Casts

	Minoru Ōki as Tadashi Yamaji
	Naoki Sugiura as Commander Akihara
	Shinji Takano as Lieutenant Ohta
	Keiko Kuni as Chiyoko
	Kinzō Shin as Lawyer Takakuwa
	Kyū Sazanka as Commander Matsushita
	Taiji Tonoyama as
	Yoshito Yamaji as
	Ryōhei Uchida as
	Chishū Ryū as Vice-Admiral Shibata
	Lea Smith as Mrs. Russell
	Elise Richter as Mrs. Doorn
	Jere Cosby as Mrs. Joustra
	Judith Binns as Miss Marietta
	Virgil Harton as Foreign public prosecutor
	Barbara Wilson as Governor's Wife
	Harold Conway as Foreign presiding judge
	Hideaki Nagai as

Crew