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The Cowra Breakout

Year:

1991

Duration:

50 min (10 episodes)

Genres:

Action | Drama | War

IMDB rate:

8.2

Director:

Chris Noonan

Details

Country: Australia

Release Date: 1991-06-07

Cast

Actor

Character

Gerry Skilton

Alan David Lee

Stan Davidson

Dennis Miller

Mick Murphy

Andrew Lloyde

Lieutenant MacDonald

Tony Barry

Sergeant Best

Peter Phelps

Terry Moyes

Nique Needles

Stinky Smith (as Nic Needles)

Peter Hehir

Padre

Alex Broun

Nobby

David Slingsby

Den Den

David Sanford

Curtis

Luke Hobbs

Athol

Tom Appleton

Barnett

Tony Benedict Smith

Nugget

Donal Gibson

Blackjack Devereaux

Malcolm Wilson

G.I. #1

Lee Rice

G.I. #2

Mark Lorenzo

Walking Wounded

Bobbie Tanabe

Exploding Japanese

Kazuhiro Muroyama

Komatsu

Susumu Hirayanagi

Sato

Collins Gippey

Native Guide

Van Markell

Doctor (as Van Markel)

Michael Cloye

Medical Orderly

Kokichi Ikeuchi

Japanese Officer

Joe Martin

Comedian

Norman Kaye

Mr. Davidson

Carole Skinner

Mrs. Davidson

Julie Nihill

Merle

Paul Smith

Bob Davidson

Brian Moll

Doctor

Todd Boyce

Ernie Lieberman

Patrick Phillips

Soldier in bar

Junichi Ishida

Junji Hayashi

Munehisa Fujita

Minami

Fumikazu Morihashi

Okamura

Mrs. Lawrence

Junji's Mother

Kyoko Yoshino

Junji's Wife

Laurie Moran

Corporal Doyle

Max Cullen

Private Hook

Simon Chilvers

Major Horden

Allan Penney

Riley

Ernie Dingo

Murray

George Shevtsov

Yuri Shevkov

Rebecca Smart

Shirley Murphy

Shari Flood

Therese Murphy

Angela Ayres

Margaret Murphy

Aussie Ostara

Elderly Guard

Kerry Mack

Mary

Glenda Linscott

Heather

Ernesto Sirolli

Vittorio

Nic Gazzana

Guiseppe (as Nick Gazzani)

Ben Franklin

Driver

Rick Tanaka

Naka

Kenji Isomura

Shimoyama

Aki Taninaka

Prankster at Concert

Lorna King

Matron Donaldson

Hideo Otake

1st Shimoyama Cohort

Yoshi Kashima

2nd Shimoyama Cohort

Fred Welsh

Clerk

May Howlett

Dance Band Leader

Noel Gilmour

Dance Band #1

Charles Munro

Dance Band #2

John Lyle

Dance Band #3

Hide Hirayama

Matsumoto

Veronica Sefton

Maid

Masaki Asai

Aoki

Fumihiko Ikeda

Oishi

Bill Brady

Farmer

Michael Stevenson

Trainee 1

Nick Lockhart

Trainee 2

Tracy Mann

Sally Murphy

Did you know?

Trivia

This mini-series' closing epilogue states: "On 2nd March 1946, the Japanese ship Daikai Maru steamed out of Sydney Harbour carrying the surviving Cowra prisoners. Three weeks late they disembarked onto an empty wharf in Japan and disappeared into Japanese society. Many have never told their friends, their wives or their children that they were prisoners-of-war [POWs]. Today the 4 Australians and 231 Japanese who died in the breakout lie buried in the War Cemetery at Cowra. In [a] field nearby, cattle graze amongst the ruins of the [Cowra Word War II] Prisoner-of-War Camp."