'OBA, The Last Samurai', AKA 'Battle of the Pacific'

[Ricardo]

Great war movie!!!

 

 

[Ricardo]

 

July 1944, The Imperial Japanese Army Garrison on Saipan mounted its final suicidal Banzai charge against the American Marines in the Battle for Saipan. Out of the 4000 Japanese who waged the charge there are almost no survivors but among them left alive is Captain Oba Sakae (Yutaka Takenouchi). Playing dead, he initially avoids capture and then is joined by a small band of survivors who retreat deep into the jungle. There, he as the highest ranking officer still alive will take command of the surviving 46 soldiers and 200 plus Japanese civilians now in his care who will evade the Marines and conduct a hit and run Guerrilla War long after the Americans declare the island secured in American hands. Enraged by Oba's resistance, the temperamental USMC Commander Colonel Pollard (Daniel Baldwin) launches an all out effort to hunt the man the Marines have dubbed "The Fox" of the Pacific...

 

Enjoy it!!

 

Ricardo.

[Ricardo]

Full movie:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqVq9GvcFuw

[Rakkasan187]

I noticed that the author of the books "United States Marine Corps Uniforms, Insignia and Personal Items of World War Two" and "782Gear" played an active role in this movie.

 

Harlan Glenn is the Marine sergeant with the soft cap and thompson SMG.

 

Leigh..

[Scarecrow]

Where is this available? Netflix does not have it. Searched using both titles. Thanks.