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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like King Rat, it finds uneasy, shifting bonds inside a Japanese POW camp, using restraint and psychological pressure rather than battlefield action to examine survival, authority and moral compromise.
02
Why this pick
Its POW setting similarly makes captivity a testing ground for pride, hierarchy and collaboration, with a measured build of tension around men whose principles become perilously entangled with survival.
03
Why this pick
A severe, enclosed military drama driven by institutional cruelty and fraught male alliances. Its stark setting and mounting pressure echo King Rat's interest in dignity under degrading conditions.
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Why this pick
Kobayashi's morally exacting wartime drama shares King Rat's unsentimental view of systems that reduce people to expediency, focusing on one man's compromised efforts to retain a conscience.
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Why this pick
Its stripped-back prison routine turns survival into a study of discipline, observation and trust. The controlled, intimate tension should suit King Rat's fascination with life under confinement.
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01 / THE STORY
Corporal King is an anomaly in the List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II. One of only a handful of Americans amongst the UK and Australian inmates, he thrives through his conniving and black market enterprises; whereas others, nearly all of higher rank, struggle to survive sickness and starvation while trying to keep their civilised nature. King recruits upper class British RAF officer Flight Lieutenant Peter Marlowe to act as a translator. As they become acquainted, Marlowe comes to like the man and appreciate his cunning. King respects Marlowe, but his attitude is otherwise ambiguous; when Marlowe is injured, King obtains expensive medicines to save Marlowe's Gangrene arm from amputation, but, despite the fact he stays by the sick man's bedside, it is unclear whether he does so out of friendship or because Marlowe is the only one who knows where the proceeds from King's latest and most profitable venture are hidden.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Marlowe
Max
Dino
Jones
Weaver
Daven
Vexley
Brough
