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The Highest Honour (1982)
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Add to a movie listThe Highest Honor is a 1983 Japanese-Australian film about Operation Jaywick and Operation Rimau by Z Special Unit during World War II.
The same story inspired the mini-series Heroes (1988) and Heroes II: The Return (1991).
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During World War II, a team of Australian soldiers from Z Special Unit, including Ivan Lyon and Robert Page, successfully lead an expedition to destroy ships in Singapore harbour, Operation Jaywick. An attempt to duplicate this success, Operation Rimau, ends in disaster, with the team either killed or captured. Those soldiers who are interrogated by the Japanese in Singapore, with Page forming a friendship with Minoru Tamiya. Eventually all the Australians are convicted of war crimes and are executed.Actors
John Howard
(Captain R. C. Page)
Steve Bisley
(A.B. W.G. Falls)
Atsuo Nakamura
(Minoru Tamiya)
Stuart Wilson
(LTCOL Ivan Lyon)
George Mallaby
(Lieutenant Commander Don Davidson)
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