Storyline

An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.—Keith Loh

Plot Keywords

soldier, world war two, jungle, 1940s, epic, u.s. army, battle, military, indonesia, japanese army, japan, racism, baby, colonel, court martial, death of family, british soldier, asia, based on book, independent film

Short Review

What is most interesting about Farewell to the King is its impulse to tell this story at all. It could so easily have become ridiculous, or merely violent, but Milius keeps edging back toward the philosophy of his hero.

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