None But the Brave (1965) - full transcript

Kuroki: Our island is a little
chunk of coral

in the Solomon archipelago.

It is nameless,

and the great war beyond
its horizons ignores us,

for we are the expendables

of an amphibious landing

left to guard
a forgotten outpost

of the imperial Japanese army.

Months ago, our
communicational equipment

was destroyed by a storm.

We have no contact
with our base.



I, lieutenant kuroki,
who is really 2 men,

2 enemies at war
with each other...

The soldier with the blood
of ancient warriors

in his veins

and the man of peace
who admires men's works

and not their destruction.

As the commander of this
platoon of castaways,

I have ordered the
construction of a boat,

hoping to restore our supply
line from bougainville.

Thrust!

Thrust!

Say, you son-of-a-gun,
what are you doing?

Say, you son-of-a-gun,
what are you doing?

Stand still! You think you
can stab Yankees like that?



Today I will chew you out
until you fall!

Yes, sergeant.
Thank you very much.

Sergeant tamura!

I have told you these rough
methods are not permitted here.

But, sir, these lazy scum
can't fight a war like this.

We are on the
foremost war front.

You are right, but we have
no enemy on this island.

What we need here
is not to know how to fight,

but how to stand the long war.

But, sir, we have forgotten that
we are the imperial army soldiers.

Soldiers?

Tamura, and just
what are the soldiers?

The countless varieties of ordinary men
blown together by the big wind called war.

Do you call him a soldier?
Tokumaru was a Buddhist priest.

I still am, sir.

The people say once you become a priest
for three days you can never stop it.

Is military service
hard for you?

No, it isn't, sir, if
it is for our country.

All right, keep it up.

Yes, sir.

You cannot be like this
next time.

Next time I'll chew your tails off
until you fall. Dismissed!

Detach bayonets.

Attention!

At ease.

- Ando.
- Sir.

You are making good progress.

If only we have this boat we can contact
our main force and bring us supplies.

I'm really glad that I can
make use of my carpentry work.

To be useful is a
most important thing.

I am fortunate to have a carpenter who can
do such fine work with makeshift tools.

Thank you very much, sir.

- Say, tamura!
- Yes, sir!

Sergeant, I notice two men here
who are assigned to other duties.

Hirano and okuda.

Yes, sir, but I thought the boat
construction needs are urgent.

You thought!

Hirano is busy with potato fields and
okuda catches fish for us.

Take them off the boat detail.

Yes, sir. As you wish, sir.

And one more thing.

Don't overwork the men in this midday
heat. Dismiss them until morning.

Attention!

Detail dismissed for the day!

Say, we all have
worked hard today.

We can launch the boat tomorrow.

Shall we celebrate now,
though we don't have any sake?

Corporal, I understand
you are from yamagata.

Yes, yamagata is noted for rice and
the hanagasa 'flower hat' dance song.

Shall we start bon dance?

Try and stop me.

Commander, you are a puzzle
to me, if I may say so.

On one hand you talk about
the urgency of boat building

while on the other hand
you act as though time is nothing.

That's true. This place is
as timeless as the moon.

Do you remember
what day it is today?

No, sir, I have forgotten.

I only know I am being abandoned
by the main force.

I had volunteered
for combat duty.

So did I.

I am prepared to risk my life
for the country, sir.

Commander,
what's happening out there, sir?

Sometimes I wonder if the war front isn't
moving to distant places northward.

What will become of Japan, sir?

Aircraft! North, northeast,
direction of bougainville.

Enemy aircraft approaching!
Due south!

There!

Now one of our zeros.

Mayday. Mayday.

This is work horse 2938.

Work horse 298. Over. Over.

Calling octopus.

Work horse 298...

Everybody out of this firetrap.

Sergeant, kick that door out.

Escort is down. We are
holding for a fix. Over.

Alright, let's move.

Mayday. Mayday.
Come in, please. Over.

Good boy. You'll get cited

for sticking to your station.

Keep sending a fix
on our position.

I also want you to
send this message.

Marine replacements

with medical and
emergency supplies

headed for peleliu

grounded by enemy attack.

Captain, sir,
this radio is shot to hell,

but I'll fix this thing, sir.
You can bet on that.

Let's go. Come on. Move it.

Move it.

You alright, Francis?

Yeah, I'm fine, except a
bad case of the breaks.

Look at this.

Didn't you hear me
order you off the bus?

Yeah, I heard you.

You need me up there?

All we need up there
is a chaplain.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Hey, you. You call
yourself a corpsman?

I got injured men out there.

Injured? They're
breathing, ain't they?

Look, you get some of your
malingering greenhorns

and get my gear out of there.

I was about to give that order,

but I don't take it from you.

You do when you
need a medic, Sonny.

Slip you a little
advice, lieutenant...

Never pull rank on a Navy chief.

I go by the book, sir.

He's a rate,
and I'm commissioned.

Corporal ruffino, take a squad
of men in this airplane

and hustle out that gear
on the double.

Ruffino: Yes, sir.

Brand-new, huh?

Yes, sir. I guess it shows.

Well, here's your
nursing bottle.

You can sure cut your
teeth on that one.

Whoo-ooh!

Thank you, captain.

Say, how long
does it usually take

for the shiny stuff to wear off?

Not very long in this sector.

I hope not. I'm in a hurry
to see some action.

You'll get more japs

walking than running, son.

Captain, I just
wanted to tell you

I really admired how you
made that forced landing.

You can thank the airplane.

It's better than the last
one I tried it with.

Lieutenant, I'll need some of
your men for burial detail.

Burial detail?

There's 2 men up
front I didn't save.

Complete assembly!

We must realize, sir,
that time is against us.

The plane must have contacted
its base by radio.

Yes. There will likely be
an American rescue force.

Then we should attack the
landing area before they come.

We shouldn't attack blindly.

The enemy commander would know
better than to stay where he landed.

But, sir...

That's enough!
I will take command.

Our first operation is to locate them
and assess their strength. Tamura!

Sir!
=-you will reconnoiter northeast.

Take private takumaru and
private ishii with you.

Yes, sir.

Corporal fujimoto,
you will reconnoiter southeast.

- Yes, sir.
- Leave immediately!

Soldiers: Yes, sir.

Oh, that's a beauty.

Probably a little concussion,

but the shape your
brain's already in,

it may be an improvement.

What's biting you down there?

Nothin". Just a nervous habit.

See me later. I'll fumigate
your blankets and you.

Next.

Better go easy on it, doc.

It's my loving arm.

Sit down here, loverboy.

Looks like a dislocation.

Ow! Damn you.

- Okay, pal.
- Thanks.

Searcy, what's the matter?

I figure I got a
hunk of packing case

in my back, doc.

Nothing up my sleeve, hoxie boy.

Deal you a hand?

Not now, slicker.

You're already in me
for 1,000 bucks.

You know, that's
peanuts to this guy.

Why, his old man owns
Rhode Island!

We passed over guadalcanal

about 1000,

so that should place
us right about here.

There's no island
here on the map.

Corpsman,

I presume the captain
radioed the base

so they'd know
where to pick us up?

I couldn't say,

but maybe that will
answer your question.

That's a radio.

Or what used to be a radio.

Then the base
don't know we're here, huh?

No, but relax, relax.
I'll fix it.

Him? That punk's so stupid,

he couldn't fix
a busted shoelace.

That's the pilot's
responsibility.

Captain!

Hey, hey, lieutenant,

nowadays, I wouldn't advise
any yelling in any jungle

anywhere west of the
international date line.

You mean japs?

Nah.

No such luck around
this strip of nowhere.

No strategic value.

Probably not even inhabited.

Captain!

We got company, sir.

Japanese.

Point's broken off, but
it ain't even rusted.

No. No, this looks
like a fishing spear.

I found a footpath back in there

and followed it down to a cove.

Join the jap army
and go fishing.

Is that all them
skivvies got to do?

We bypassed
this position long ago

when we landed on bougainville.

Plumb cut them off, huh, sir?

What's the name of the place?

Meet the neighbors,
you can ask them.

Japanese.

That blade's Japanese alright.

You men see it?

Well, looks like we
found some action

after all. Tell you men...

Lieutenant, you got any orders

to mop up wayside islands?

Certainly not, sir...

You said you go by the book.

Yes, sir. Just one of those
matters of judgment.

Alright, every man
in combat condition,

want you to grab your weapons

and let's move! On the double!

Unless they're in force,

there won't be a dirty
jap around tonight.

Dirty jap, lieutenant?

They invented the bathtub.

What?

You talk like a bird
who's gone asiatic.

You can say that again, sir.

I been close
to the top brass, see,

and I got the scuttlebutt
on this stewbum.

He wouldn't come out of the
reserve until Singapore fell

'cause he was shacked up
with some malay dame.

Oh, sergeant, that kind
of crude language

will get you nowhere socially.

I was her house guest.

Everybody, ready?

Count them off,
sergeant. Let's move!

Fall in!

Now, you wait just
a second, captain!

You trying to take
over my command?

I'm just trying to
help you keep it alive.

Attention!

Corporal,
pick yourself another man

and get out there
and keep your eyes open.

Yes, sir. Searcy.

Yo!

Now, listen to this...

You, lieutenant,
and you, sergeant,

I want to tell you a little
something about the enemy.

And on this island,
he's on his home grounds.

He knows the terrain, you don't.

So we give him the courtesy
of making the first move.

And get this...

Never start swinging
at any enemy in anger,

or you'll wind up
getting clobbered.

Now, you ought to
know that, sergeant.

These gravediggers tell me

you're the heavyweight
champ in your division.

Yeah, when I fight, I fight mad.

Now, you said you were
close to the top brass.

Kind of pampered, huh?

I got the scuttlebutt
on you, too.

You were a scrap pilot.

Landed on your head
just once too often.

In the hospital for weeks.

I was more comfortable there

than you're gonna be
in the brig.

What brig?

You're gambling we're
stuck for the duration,

jungle law, no military
court to answer to. Well...

You're the one who'll
be held to answer, sir,

if you break the
chain of command.

Well, lieutenant, it seems
you haven't read your Bible

as well as you claim.

Article 9, page 33, and I quote,

"any military personnel
assigned to the care and custody

"of the commanding officer
of any military transport,

"whether seaborne or airborne,

"shall obey all orders of
said commanding officer

until arrival at destination."
Unquote.

I'll look that up
in my handbook, sir.

Alright, understand this,
all of you...

The chain of command
will remain as is.

Your platoon leader
is lieutenant Blair.

He'll consult with
his superior officer

on all matters of policy.

Me.

Alright, at ease, men.

Now, sergeant bleeker.

Yes, sir?

See that hill in back of me?

Yeah, I see it.

That's where we'll locate
our base and defense.

As of now, you're captain of
the head, so start digging.

Me?

You!

You feel like gambling,
sergeant?

Go right ahead. Go for broke.

You the ozark mountain boy
I talked to?

Yes, sir. Corporal craddock.

Alright, craddock,
you're my chief scout.

Tonight I'll go on your
first mission with you.

Much obliged, skipper.

Lieutenant, have your men
pack the supplies up the hill,

start setting up our defense.

And as of now we start
conserving food and water.

Our supplies are limited.

Sir. Fall out and turn to.

You heard the command.

You got any more policy, sir?

You start learning
to fight with your brains

instead of your feelings.

I want to whip the enemy
as much as you do,

not because he's Japanese,
but because he is the enemy.

Now, that's policy, lieutenant,
and one thing more...

In combat, you'll live a lot
longer not being saluted

or wearing your
insignia of rank.

The enemy likes to kill the
officers and non-comms first.

Breaks up the chain of command.

Thank you, sir.

Conserve the water?

That's the best news I've heard

since we whipped
the Japanese at midway.

Want a drink?

Go easy on that stuff, Francis.

We'll need whiskey for medicine.

You just saved me a dozen
future patients over there.

Well, I figure we'll
have to pay some lives,

but I'm no spendthrift.

All that stuff you were spouting

about regulations
and all that stuff,

is that really in the book?

Frankly, I don't know.

I figure the lieutenant
will look it up.

Not too soon, he won't,

'cause while you were
indoctrinating the troops,

I snatched this out
of his duffel bag.

Hey. Well, what do you know.

Francis, I appreciate that.

Nothing at all, captain.

Very interesting.

Haven't read it
since I was a kid.

If you had, you'd have
been a colonel by now.

This is mighty peculiar
scouting, skipper.

Now you just watch.

They'll come to us.

You can see that light
from any hilltop.

Yeah, but that
sure is dirty pool.

Fujimoto: Sergeant,
it's unwise to disobey our commander.

Tamura: Commander!
He is too tame for this job.

Hirano: They say he was the top
of his class at officer's school.

Tamura: Shut up!
Theory and practice is different.

Fujimoto: But we are ordered to report
to him as soon as we rendezvous.

Stop arguing! We can't
depend on such a commander.

Quiet. We are getting
close. Follow me.

Wait till the whole
detail's in the open.

Tamura: Attach bayonets.

Aah!

I'm taking no more orders

to sit here on my lard.

Remember article 9, lieutenant,

page, uh... what page
did he say?

I don't know what the hell
happened to that damn handbook.

I lost it somewhere. But I'll
take my chances he's faking.

Come on!

I smell a grenade.

Tamura: Those
Yankees, slippery as snakes.

Kuroki: Of the 2 men in me,

only the hard-nosed soldier

can be understood
by sergeant tamura.

Defying my order.

Risking lives on some
crazy night adventure.

To him, Patience is weakness,

and the rational man is a fool.

And no flight officer's got a
license to keep me out of action!

Diddley squat!

What the hell would a pilot
know about infantry tactics?

Corporal craddock,
you're a witness

to armed defiance of authority.

Yes, sir.

That's crazy!

Now, take your gravel crunchers
back up that hill

and be thankful
I'ma lenient man!

Yes, sir.

And I would do
likewise again, sir, at any sacrifice.

You fool!

I had planned to attack them tonight,
but your disobedience ruined the plan.

Next time I will
have your head chopped off.

Yes, sir.

Who the hell you working for,

us or the japs?

How long you been cutting hair?

You're my first
customer, jughead.

I wonder where our
big military brain

from the wild blue yonder is.

Probably out studying geography.

Yeah, hope to hell he knows
what he's doing on the ground.

He does, pal.

Didn't he tell you

he used to be a ground pounder?

No.

Yeah, so he didn't like
fighting and took to the air.

Me, I don't recognize no C.O.

Except lieutenant Blair here.

Mouth fighters.

What do you want
us to be, scared?

Yeah, better you
should be, boot.

They transferred me
to this nursery

to learn you that.

Say, I hear you killed
your share at guadal.

Yeah, and I was scared
all the time.

That's why I'm
still here, kiddies.

Halt! Who goes there?

Daniel Boone.

Lieutenant, captain
was right, sir.

We'd have been real dead

trying to get at that camp.

How big is their
outfit, craddock?

Well, I can't say for sure, sir.

I was too busy ducking
their outposts,

but they got a smart location
with a supply wharf

that don't look like it's
been used much lately.

You'd have to swim to get
at them on the bay side,

and they got a big old lookout
hill over on the east.

Brambles at the other approaches

are worse than poison Ivy.

There's something else
mighty interesting, sir.

What's that?

They're building a boat.

Well, that is interesting.

Maybe they're
building it for us.

Yeah.

They can keep it.

The kind of boat I'm looking for

is one of those gray buckets

with the big, fat
stars and stripes on it.

Now listen.

Our lookout has just reported
that he had seen an enemy ship.

We will go into the emergency
operation immediately. Ando?

Yes, sir?
= you know your orders.

- I do, sir.
- Carry on.

Right face!

Well, I ain't been drinking.

Must be your power
of suggestion.

No, sir, my boy.
That's genuine American Navy.

Whoo!

Looks mighty good
to me, corpsman.

Ha ha ha! Take a look at that.

What the hell are you
doing about it?

Well, we just now
identified her as U.S.

We got to try and
signal that ship.

Keller, improvise
some smoke pots.

Right away, sir.

She's searching for us
because we're overdue,

searching the water because
I plowed in that airplane

clean out of sight of the ocean.

Lieutenant, you pick some
men and come with me.

Bleeker, you stay here and guard
the camp with the rest of the men.

Move out.

Alright, spread out
and move slow.

Don't let them
get off a signal to the ship.

Shoot anyone who
pops out of the jungle.

Get in there and light
those pots on the double.

You see anything, captain?

No.

Is it a sniper?

Must be. I don't see anybody.

Yeah, you learned young, marine.

Now let's go.

Now let them come out. Let's go.

Wait a minute.

They got to have something
more than that going for "em.

They could have pinned us down
on this beach for a week.

Hit the deck!

You stupid bums!

You're firing at your friends!

Lieutenant, over here.

They can't see the color
of your eyes,

but they can see that.

Well, I guess we've had it.

They don't even
think this island's

worth much shooting at.

I guess we'll be here forever.

It'll seem longer than that.

Kuroki: So now it appears
that we and our enemy

are about even
in men and weapons

and bad luck.

They, too, are marooned

with no means of communication.

It was plain they
couldn't radio their ship.

To adjust to our stone-age
standard of living

will not be easy for them.

Evidently, they have no provider

like my good,
simple-minded okuda.

I've been waiting for you, Mac.

You're sure a slowpoke.

I want you to answer me
a few questions, boy.

First off, how many men

you got scattered
around this island?

Come on, boy.

You're being interrogated.

Can't you talk a little english?

You listen to me.

If you're just giving me
a dumb act,

I'm going to ream
your belly button.

Oh, shucks.

I never could stick a guy

when he was smiling at me.

The fact is...
Where I come from,

we don't shoot nobody

whose got a knack for catfish

or sour mash.

How do you like-um
cigarettes, tojo?

The fish?

Good hot wampum from px.

See you again, boy,
and we'll talk some more.

Hey, this is good.

Yeah, baby.

Kuroki: How strange
are these barbarians...

Ferocious, yet capable
of human reasoning.

"We don't shoot nobody
who's got a knack for fish."

So, this afternoon,

I undertake
an intelligence mission.

Finally, I discover
what I am really looking for...

Their commander,

my colleague
in the game of death.

Oh, yes, I know him at once

by his lonely detachment
from the others.

Captain, I think
it's myduty to tell you

these men are fed up
with your kind of war!

I didn't choose this kind.

You claim you're in command.

I'min command.

Then attack!

Sir.

Lieutenant, a frontal attack
on their terms

would sure accommodate them.

Yes, indeedy.

Begging the lieutenant's
pardon, sir,

but if we hit that camp,

they'd chop us into dog meat.

- Corporal ruffino.
- Yes, sir.

What's your opinion
on this matter?

I'd say that they're too smart
to attack our hill position,

so I guess it's guerrilla
tactics all the way.

They've got the advantage
there, too... food and water.

To wash 'em down with
but coconut milk.

I've spotted their water supply.

It's a spring well
over to the west.

But they sure got it secured.

My men could take it!
They're marines!

No, they're not marines

till they start
growing some brains.

You tell them, captain.

He was in boot camp before
they invented the airplane.

Who ami to contradict
an old salt

who was with decatur at Tripoli?

Has-beens.

Has-beens.

What was it he said
about jungle law?

Well, we finally got it,
ain't we?

Now, you guys take your orders
from the lieutenant.

I'll handle the flyboy.

You dumb slob.

You're lucky you don't
work for a jap C.O.

He'd put you in that grave.

I'd make sukiyaki out of him.
That goes for you, too.

Anybody else?

Last call for gripers,
and I mean last!

Captain!

I consider it my duty
to apologize, sir,

and request a deck court
for that man.

Forget it, lieutenant.

We're going to need every
big baboon we can housebreak.

Now, let's see if we can't work
together and figure out a way

kuroki:
I could easily kill him now

at the cost of my own life.

I have been taught
that death is purity.

And sometimes, the call to die

is a stronger wine than life.

He still lives today

because in the loneliness
of command,

we are brothers.

Tamura: That's all today.

Damn!

They must've made that one
at lockheed.

Well, I'll tell ya,

I take 'em as a good sign
we're gettin' close to water.

Now, we'll wait here
for craddock,

then we'll go on to the spring.

Hey, hoxie,

I'll make book with you
on who drinks first.

Alright, slicker, you're on.

Double what I owe you or nothing
that I beat you to the water.

Alright. We'll
advance but slowly.

Searcy: Wish to hell
I'd brought more canteens.

Hoxie: Oh, man, it's a beaut.

Yeah...

But this is as close
as we'll get.

What, sir?

I plan to grab
the Japanese boat.

Our action here is just a feint
to draw them away from it.

Sir, we got to have some water!

That spring will be
there anytime.

The boat won't.

Figure they built it to
contact their main force.

It's our best bet, too.

Watch the action, gents.

No, you idiot!

It don't make sense, skipper.

Yes, it does.

Come on, you guys.

The searcy luck's
protecting you.

Come on.

No! Damn it! Come back here!

I'm sorry I jumped
the command, sir.

Get back to maloney.
You're no good to me.

Yes, sir.

Craddock.

Yes, sir.

I want you
to make like a platoon.

Spread them thin
and encircle Indian-style.

Make the enemy C.O.
think there's so many of you

he'll send reinforcements.

When you get the merry-go-round
going, leave roth in charge.

You and bleeker join me
at rendezvous tidewater.

Yes, sir.

Fujimoto.

You will re-enforce
the spring immediately.

Yes, sir.

But return at once if you hear
firing from this quarter.

Fujimoto: Yes, sir.

I suspect a decoy maneuver
to get at our camp.

Commander, will the boat be all right?
She is like a wife to me, sir.

Don't worry. We will
defend your wife's honor.

Yes, sir.

Corporal fujimoto will take three men
to re-enforce the spring, sir.

Left face, forward
on the double.

Don't waste ammunition.

I saw something moving there.

You are impossible.

No yankee boat thieves can be here
until the full tide covers the reef.

But I am only telling you
what I saw.

You fool! Don't be a chicken!

You are the worst soldier
in the whole imperial army.

I believe I share
the distinction, sergeant.

I try to make allowances
for a prayer reader.

If anything happens to me,
read me a prayer, will you?

Oh, leave it up to me, sergeant.

Stop it! Not time yet.

Who goes there?

Operation idiot.

Ain't nothing holding that boat

but 2 little ol' pieces of rope.

They can cast her off
on the run.

Fine. Now get this...

We can't float her over the
reef before the dawn tide.

When the moon goes down,

you Wade out and board her.

Keep your powder high and dry,

and remember,

your destination
is Santa Isabel.

You got the chart?

Yes, sir.

Any questions?

No, sir.

Good luck.

Stay on your feet!

Why?

Get up, you too!

The boat is drifting!

Commander! Commander!

- Hold fire!
- The fore cable has been cut.

The cable's been cut off. Take the
boat on the other side of the pier.

Tamura! Cover them with fire.

Go!

There's enemy on the boat, too!

Bastards!

Aah!

Behind us!

Move up!

Man on the dock!
Get him! Get him!

She's drifting our way.
Keep "em pinned down.

Hand grenade.

Tamura, cover me.

Get him! Get that man!

The boat! It's burning!

You took my boat.
You took my boat.

My boat! My boat.

Aah!

Aah!

Kuroki: The dream of hope
is ashes,

but the fury that destroyed it

is still aflame.

However, even hatred
has its rituals.

We and the enemy

have paused to honor the dead

and gird for more.

Here sleeps Ando the carpenter,

who, like Adam,

built his love out of nothing,

out of his rib,
as the story goes.

Ando and his boat.

He loved her like a wife

and died with her.

And here lies arikawa,

who so boldly charged the boat.

And here is the marine
who traded his life

for a drink of water.

How foolish that anyone must die

for want of water

on a planet
mostly composed of water.

Port arms.

- Tokumaru.
- Yes, sir.

You read the prayer for them.

Yes, sir. I will
bring my rosary.

Lance corporal! Lance corporal!
Please, somebody, come!

Please, somebody, come!
Commander!

Lance corporal is trying to commit
suicide. Please come! Hurry!

If I had been a step later
we would have had another grave.

You make light of your life!

Hirano, why do you
hurry to death?

Because I cannot do anything
when my comrades die fighting.

Don't be silly.
The fighting is not all of life.

We have only a few of us left

and we want to hear your songs.

Now let's see your leg.

3 crosses, 3 cremations.

Nobody can ever say
we're not good to our boys.

We should fire
a salute over them.

It's time we got
stingy with the ammo.

It's not a salute
you'll be needing.

It's a lesson
in the ways of love.

Take heed, you fornicators.

Bridle your lust for
your neighbors® geisha.

'Tis the item of the
boat I'm speaking of,

my stupid friends.

She was a lover to the Japanese.

Men are strongest

when they're protecting
their darlings.

Look, what we don't need here
is a drunken Irish poet.

I ordered you
to lay off the whiskey.

Okay, captain bourke.

I'm sober enough
to say I'm sorry,

and I'm... sorry for you, too.

So your bums didn't like my
heads enough to stick around.

You won't find
no better in hell.

If they could hear me,

I'd promise each
of them a dead jap.

Kuroki: Captain!

I wish to speak to
the American captain.

Can you hear me?

I hear you. Who are you?

Lieutenant kuroki.

I wish to negotiate
with you privately.

I'll take care of the creep.

Now you stay put, shavetail.

You alone?

Yes. Of course.

Where?

50 meters east will do.

If you try barging in,
lieutenant, I'll kill you.

Damn maniac would, too.

Very trusting of you to come...

Unarmed.

My apologies.

You the commanding officer?

Only the acting C.O.,

as a result of casualties

in our battalion command.

Battalion?

You must have them
well dispersed.

You would need
air reconnaissance

to spot all the units.

Yeah? Well, I'm
fresh out of airplanes.

And we are both...

Out of
communicational equipment.

Well, no matter.

My transport was carrying
double troop capacity.

All seasoned veterans.

Got most of them
deployed in the hills.

So many and so thirsty, eh?

I wouldn't snow you on that.

A little honesty is refreshing.

Yeah.

Pardon me for testing yours.

It's perfectly alright.

I was afraid it was making you
uncomfortable in there.

What else is
bugging you, lieutenant?

Why did you call me out here?

I need the services
of your doctor

for a soldier
with a gangrenous leg.

In return,

you may fill your canteens
at the spring.

Now, that's not much of a fee

for a man who's spent
half his life

in medical college.

I will add
20 litres of potatoes.

And fish?

10 kilos of dried fish.

Alright. It's a deal.

I'll deliver my medic to you

at the spring in about...

Say, one hour from now.

Right.

Maloney!

You're kidding.

Like hell I am.

I'm trading your services
for water and food.

But in Singapore
I got real dough.

Yeah, but they can't
deport you here

for practicing
without a diploma.

You got a big mouth,
and they'll also probably

stick a bayonet in my gut if
the patient comes up kaput.

Don't be crass. I gave
him the impression

you're a highly-educated m.D.

You're so good to me, captain.

I'm also promoting you to
my chief of intelligence.

I expect you
to scout their camp,

give me a report on
materials and manpower.

Now you're giving me a
chance to get shot as a spy.

Well, nothing's
too good for my boy.

That's what I mean.

Chokes me up right there.

Heh. You...

And place
the helmets from the graves

in front of the barracks,

pretend the owners
are still alive.

- Fujimoto.
- Yes, sir.

Place a layer of hand grenades
on sand in this box.

We don't want our enemy
to know our real strength here.

If any of you has any ideas for two plus
two equal eight use your initiative.

Soldiers: Yes, sir.

- Ishii.
- Yes, sir.

- Is your malaria fever down yet?
- I feel all right, sir.

The physician is
on the way, sir.

And that captain
is almost draining the well.

Did you find out the enemy strength?
I ordered you to count the canteens.

Yes, sir, I counted, but...

But what? Make it clear.

- He fooled me.
- Fooled you?

He brought only one canteen.
It's the world's biggest.

A fuel tank from the plane.

I can't do business
with yankee traders.

Maybe he has a lot more soldiers
than we estimated.

So do we here. Look.

It would look like lots of soldiers
resting in the barracks.

You couldn't have chosen better
window-dressing than that sluggard.

There he comes.

I have brought the doctor, sir.

I appreciate your visit, doctor.

Everybody out of the barracks!
We have a visitor.

No, no. Let them rest.

As you were. Get your sleep.

You, uh, got
a little problem here?

He wanted to turn out the
troops in your honor,

but they'll need their sleep

before they relieve
the other units.

Oh, sure, don't let me
upset anything, pal.

Kuroki: Tokumaru.

- You take the doctor's case.
- Yes, sir, I will.

This way, please.

After you.

Chills and fever. Malaria?

Quinine.

I'll take it.

Here, keep these. We've
got plenty of them.

Thanks.

If you please.

What fool left all
this dangerous stuff around here?

Put it out of the way.

One of the worst Japanese habits

is to waste materials
when they are plentiful.

And now to your patient, doctor.

Excuse me.

Tamura.

Cup of water, please.

Kuroki:
Get him a glass of water.

Thank you.

This is sulfamethane.

It'll relax him.

This is a
medicine, this will relax you.

Maybe even help kill
the pain a little bit.

Some captain I got.

He's crazy.

I beg your pardon?

He's crazy.

He thinks I can do surgery
with a first-aid kit.

Lieutenant, the leg's
got to be amputated,

otherwise this boy's
going to die.

And he might die anyway.

Hirano.

Your leg has to be operated on.

I would've broken it
to you easier, son,

but I don't know how.

Did you take the
malaria medicine that guy gave you?

Could this be quinine?
May be poison.

Hey!

That's right, throw them away.

It's acompound of arsenic,
strychnine, and Spanish fly.

I doubt that, doctor.

So do I, lieutenant,

because that's tougher
to get than quinine.

I'm fresh out
of pharmacy antiseptic,

and I been hiding this
from the children.

If any of you rock heads
don't trust me

giving it to the kid,
just say the word,

and you'll make me very happy.

Save it, please...

For the patient.

Lieutenant...

I'm a band-aid man.
I'm not a surgeon.

I put mercurochrome
on the scratches of the guys.

Please cut off my leg.

He says for you
to take off the leg.

No. No, I haven't even
got a bone saw in my kit.

We still have Ando's saw.

Sato. Bring Ando's tool.

What the hell kind of a butcher

do you think I am, pal?

Save us, merciful Buddha.

He some kind of priest?

Buddhist.

I hope he's got connections.

If I die without the
operation I might as well die with it.

He feels if he must die
without the operation,

he might as well die with it.

Sergeant...

Hold that over the flame
and sterilize it.

Lieutenant...

When I tell you
to make this tighter...

You tighten it up real good.

It's right over
the main artery right there.

That's enough.

That's enough.

Don't just look down at me.

Please help me.

Captain...

You have a most
remarkable doctor.

Yeah, I know. He pulled
me through once.

Lieutenant, remember
the antitetanus.

But be careful with that juice.
It can be rough.

Of course, if he starts
bleeding again,

use plenty of styptic
and the pain killers

and of course the sulfa drug.

Yes.

Thank you for everything.

Everything.

Why are we trying
to kill each other?

Old tribal custom.

Our fight is just
about that archaic.

You're so right.

I'm no longer of any
military value to Japan.

Nor are you
to the United States.

I'm marooned up to my ears
in greenhorns.

What happened to
the seasoned veterans?

Well, after seeing
some of your boys,

I figured I didn't need them.

Look, you and I
are professionals.

We might just as well level
with each other.

Professional?

Well...

Perhaps I am by heritage.

So, uh, I think there's
a next move, captain,

which we should consider
with professional calm.

A truce.

Yes.

With one reservation.

If either of us
again becomes a part

of the war potential
of his country,

we fight.

Well, that goes without saying.

Then a truce it is.

And all the water you can drink.

Kuroki: I have no delusions
about this uneasy peace.

Itis asleeping tiger

which could be aroused
by trespassers.

And yet there is one

for whose visits I am thankful.

If the ship will not take a girl

I will cut my long hair

and put myself in military uniform
and follow you wherever you go.

Mayday, mayday.

This is work horse 298.

Mayday, mayday.

This is work horse 298
calling anybody.

Come in, please. Over.

Come on, baby.

Come on, please, baby,
you can do it.

I told you 1 could do it.

Didn'ti?21 told you!

Alright, you got
the receiver working fine.

What about the transmitter?

Oh, don't you worry about that.

I'll fix that, too.

You just keep pumping. Sir.

Like I tried to tell you, sir,

this truce never made sense.

I regret to say the
lieutenant is correct.

And you know why!

Because you took it as an invitation
to send a spy on the prowl!

That wasn't by my orders.

Aw, shove it!
And don't forget to duck!

You just say the word, captain.
Just say the word!

I saw this once on mindanao.

The coming of the monsoon!

Tidal wave weather.

We are going to need
all hands at the well.

If we don't dike it,

we'll be drinking salt water.

We'll secure our supplies

and meet you at the well.

And you make sure
you bring all your men.

You, too.

Take all
the supplies up the hill!

Alright, come on, let's move!

There's some good trees
just right for cutting

right on top of the hill.

Lieutenant!

You gold bricker,

I told you to bring
all your men!

This is all.
You haven't many either.

Maloney told me you had
at least 2 companies.

Oh, I'm surprised
he believed that fake.

Aw, it's getting to where
you can't even trust

your next-door neighbor.

Let's put '"em in there.

Let's go. Get those sandbags.

Put that log around there.

Get it up there,
will you? It's heavy.

Come on, let's go, gang.

I salvaged the radio, skipper,

then I stashed it away.

Anybody see you?

No, sir.

Alright, let's move it,
move it, move it!

Come on, move it, move it,
move it, boys!

Aah!

Thanks for...

Thanks for pulling me out.

Don't thank me. Thank him.

- Him?
- Yeah.

Well, I'll be a son of a buck.

Yeah.

Yup.

Be it ever so humble,
this is it.

For the rest
of our lives perhaps.

Unless that
radio contact you made

changes your prospects.

A hula contest at waikiki beach?

That was a big help.

Your signalman was operating
in the transport.

Now no more transport,
no more radio.

I went looking for that aircraft

while the rest of you
were sleeping.

I looked forit, too,

while you thought
I was sleeping.

We didn't find much, did we?

No.

I regret we'll leave
so few relics for posterity

on this isle of the unblessed...

Low-brow skull fragments
of machine-age man,

remnants of firearms,

and perhaps
a well-preserved manuscript

as ancient as cuneiform.

Yours?

I was a staff writer
for various periodicals.

Can't break the habit.

I'll be darned.

I had you pegged as
a bona fide samurai.

No.

There is not room in this heart

for the warrior.

It's too crowded.

What's her name?

Keiko.

We were married

on the day I left for the war,

in my house at
the foot of mount fuji.

My family's house for 300 years.

All the lives

which must have
marched through it...

Long gone.

And to think it was still there.

That great mountain,

so strong and beautiful,

seemed to protect it.

You know,

we Japanese can figure
the time of the calendar

by the flowers.

They were chrysanthemums then...

The sign of the end of Autumn.

And to me,

my Keiko was more lovely
than the blossoms.

There was less than
an hour remaining

before my departure.

But I was convinced

that our decision
to marry was right.

To marry, yet never
to possess her body

for momentary joy.

Only to hold her
in the arms of the heart

and the embrace of the spirit

beyond this life.

They promise us
better days there.

Don't they?

Well...

That shouldn't be
too difficult to prophesy.

It's easier to make
a truce with you,

my friend,

than with life.

No, you did right.

Chief, don't you think
we'd better get back,

see what's left of the camp?

If that's not
a command, captain,

I prefer sitting
just where I am.

Alright, you Ronins. Stay here.

Probably wind up having
to carry you anyway.

Goodnight, lieutenant.

Goodnight, captain.

Kampai. Thou shalt not kill.

Dennis bourke has lost
a second lover.

One of these days,

I'm going to button
your lip for keeps.

What was it you said?

Second lover?

Mm-hmm.

Love ain't always
for people, lieutenant.

Often it's an idea

that keeps pounding at you.

What kind of idea?

Oh, many kinds of ideas.

Do good, do bad,

Rob a bank, build a hospital.

Or maybe a real big idea

like, uh, peace on earth,

goodwill toward men.

Or maybe, uh, an idea

that keeps driving old Dennis.

Win the war.

Smash everything
that comes in your way.

Someone did get in his way?

You hit him where he lives.

You gave your girl a fair shake.

- Kampal.
- Ah, no more kampai

until you've told me about him.

Yeah, where was 1?

About his girl.

Well, just before
the beginning of the war,

he got busted up pretty badly.

Airplane crash.

And she wangled a government job

and got herself
to the Philippines

to be near him.

Imagine coming all the way
from the United States

to help this bum get well.
Heh heh heh!

And she was
some kind of girl, pal.

Some kind of a doll.

Once she kissed me

'cause she found out

I got him to the hospital
in time to save his life.

Yep.

She kissed me right there.

Soft as the wings
of a butterfly.

Ah, I wasn't the kind of guy

who went around kissing ladies,

but that little goober
stuck there

just like it was a tattoo.

I guess I was kind of
mushy about her.

Imagine a tramp like me.

Maybe that's why
I dig at him so much.

Anyway, when he got
out of sick bay,

the flight surgeons kept
him grounded for a while.

And finally, just before
the fall of Manila,

some of them
were already dancing

on the lid of the coffin.

Well, he got
his flying papers back

because we were
short-handed in the air,

but he kept it secret from her

that he was shoving off
the next day.

He briefed me in what he
had to do that night...

Break the news that I was gonna put
her on the next flight stateside.

She didn't fight it much.

She knew that nobody
but Dennis ever wins.

All she asked was
that they be married,

figuring it would give her
an excuse to go on living,

even if he was killed.

But he claims he thought
it wouldn't be fair to her,

married to nothing but the
memory of a selfish slob.

But I know his breed.

War's their meat,

and home's wherever
they can get it.

No.

Lorie? Lorie!

Many times I've heard him
call in his sleep.

Lorie.

Lorie.

Don't take no
headshrinker to figure out

that he wishes he was dead
instead of her.

Conscience.

Exactly.

That's the monkey on his back,

eating away at him
like cancer, only worse.

Too slow, too mean
to make an end of it.

Teaching him the hard way

that lorie was
his only real love.

And you are

his self-appointed conscience.

She was real to me, too,

and I'll never let him forget

that the bomb was his mistress.

I'm sorry for him.

I would like to help him.

Don't.

Just play it cool, lieutenant.

Remember what he told you.

Don't forget to duck.

Marine: Got the antenna rigged.

We'll soon have it
working now, sir.

If we don't have to
move it again.

I have to keep
experimenting, sir.

Got to locate this joker

where she'll put out
as good as she receives.

False alarm, huh?

No, I found footprints,

and they're leading
from the beach.

Looked like maybe they
doubled back that way.

Anybody see you with that radio

beside the fisherman?

You mean the day of the storm?

Yeah.

No, sir, no.
And he didn't see it.

Well, I think maybe
he's seen it now.

You move the gear,
pick a new spot.

I'll stick around here

and make sure nobody
picks up your trail.

Say. Oh, damn it, I missed one.

You stay there. Don't move.
Here we go.

Damn, I missed again.
This time I'll get it.

Here I go.

You can do nothing for me.

Save us, merciful Buddha.

Amen.

Unit, dismissed.

Lieutenant kuroki.

Yes.

You can take this
for whatever it's worth,

and maybe that's not much,

but you're a hell of a guy.

Thanks.

You sure undermined
his character.

The senses grow becalmed here,

all except yours and mine.

Make your point.

I shall try to
ferret out your radio.

Be sure you don't
mistake your target

the next time.

Wait a minute. Then it was
you, not the fisherman.

Of course.

But I find no dishonor in you.

What you're doing for your men,

il would do for mine.

Well, believe it or not,

can do for you.

Ah, but there is.

You can wish me luck.

I wish you this much...

That you find your way home

to that house with the mountain.

I hope you find a place as
peaceful as that one.

I could use it.

Good luck, kuroki.

Kuroki: Good luck to me?

I am convinced he means it.

Good luck and good aim.

And the bullet
to silence his anguish.

Work horse 298 calling octopus.

Octopus, octopus.

This is work horse 298
calling octopus.

Come in, please. Over.

Man in radio: This is octopus.

Where are you, work horse?

Gosh almighty,
where you guys been?

Hey, we've been
calling you for days!

Over. Over.

Where are you anyway?

We're here with
some Japanese folks.

Over.

You in Japan?

No, we're not in Japan, stupid.

We're, uh...

Give me that.

Octopus. Oct...

Octopus, octopus,
do you read me? Over.

Man on radio: I read you
loud and clear.

This is captain Dennis bourke,

pilot of missing
air transport 298. Over.

Kuroki: I can read the truth
in their faces,

and it is no surprise to me.

Against the inevitable,

I have already distributed

our last few rounds
of ammunition.

I have prepared for
what I must now do.

Lieutenant kuroki.

Our communications
have been restored.

One of our destroyers
is on her way

to remove us from this island.

Captain Dennis has
extended me permission

to offer you terms.

Surrender?

You and your men

will receive good treatment.

Prisoners of war.

No, thank you.

As you can see,

I am moving my camp.

Yes. We looked for you there.

That position was
no longer defensible,

since you know it so well.

We wouldn't attack you,
lieutenant.

I would.

The truce is ended.

I belong to the Japanese army.

Until my country
advises otherwise,

I remain at war.

I am sure you
understand, captain.

I understand.

Goodbye, my friend.

Left face! Forward march!

Hirano.

Stay here.

Hirano!

Man on radio: USS Walker
to captain bourke.

Captain bourke. Over.

Captain bourke.
Go ahead, Walker. Over.

Verifying previous plan.

Our rendezvous is
at north point. Over.

Roger. We're on our way. Over.

We carry no orders for mop-up

but will reinforce evacuation
if necessary. Over.

Not necessary. Over.

You have sufficient arms

to destroy remainder
of enemy? Over.

Have and will do. Over and out.

Waller. Get that grease gun up
here in front on the double.

You see any Japanese,

you start shooting
and shoot to kill.

I didn't save that kid's life

to see him get shot.

Why the hell don't we
just get on the ship?

Kuroki! If you're
near, keep away!

Shut up! I said knock it off!

Now move out.

Look at that. Is that beautiful?

Man, we're home.

Hold your fire.

Keiko.

Keiko.

Let me have a look at that.

Forget it.
Take a look at kuroki.

If you can do anything for him,

we'll take him along.

Alright. Let's move.

- Ruffino.
- Yes, sir.

- Bleeker.
- Yo.

Gather up our dead.

We'll bury them at sea.

Yes, sir.

Well, he's had it.

Looks like you won again,
Denny boy.

He told me to give you this.

Written in Japanese.

What do you make of it?

What little I can savvy,

it looks like an address.

Maybe one of these days,

I'll be flying
a crate of greenhorns

into Japan.

I'll look into it.

Captain.

His flag's still up there.

You want me to take it down?

It's his island.

Kuroki: Yes. And my friend
the captain can tell you

that my good soldiers
will always defend it,

for there is no death
where the spirit lives.

So do not grieve, my dear Keiko,

when he brings you my journal.

This was only another day,

and I say goodnight.