During World War II, British soldier Eric Lomaxwas captured by the Japanese army and forced to work as a laborer on the Thai-Burma Railway. Lomax, who was a signal soldier, secretly assembled a radio to listen to the information of the outside world-Japan could not stand it any longer, and the dawn was ahead. A little bit of news became food for the spirits of all captured comrades, but everything was eventually exposed. The Japanese soldiers took turns torturing Lomax with all kinds of unimaginable cruel methods. He could not escape from the shadows in his life, even if his wife Patricia Wallaceon the side
. Thirty years after the war, he learned that Takashi Nagase, a Japanese translator who had tortured him, was still alive. He decided to meet this man, not for revenge, but for the past. Reconciliation
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The Railway Man movie plot
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The Railway Man quotes
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Patti: [Kisses Eric] I've never kissed a man with a moustache before.
[pauses]
Patti: And I don't think I'm going to kiss a man with a moustache again.
Eric: And if the man removed the moustache?
Patti: Yes, that would do nicely.
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Nagase: You are a soldier, Lomax. You never surrendered.
Eric: I'm still at war.