Continuity mistake: In the very beginning of the movie a Japanese prisoner train is being filmed from the roof view with a Japanese soldier at a machine gun with a tripod riding on the roof. The Japanese soldier has his legs resting up on a wooden pallet type platform. When the train car approaches a few seconds later toward British soldiers a working on the train track the Japanese soldier's legs are now on the train car roof and no wooden pallet structure is visible. (01:01:01)
Suggested correction: There actually two Japanese guards on the train, one near the front of the flat car containing the POWs near the locomotive and one at the rear of the car. That's why they look different.
Factual error: There are many scenes where Japanese soldiers are using British weapons. Vickers machine guns, Enfield rifles, and Sten sub-guns.
Suggested correction: Captured stock taken on the fall of Singapore and the surrender of the British forces stationed there – and their weapons. They were allocated to POW camps which were considered unworthy of regular Japanese weaponry.
