The Wind Cannot Read
| The Wind Cannot Read | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ralph Thomas |
| Produced by | Betty E. Box Earl St. John |
| Written by | Richard Mason (novel) |
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde Yoki Tani Ronald Lewis John Fraser |
| Music by | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino |
| Cinematography | Ernest Steward |
| Editing by | Frederick Wilson |
| Release date(s) | 1958 |
| Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Wind Cannot Read is a 1958 British drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Yoko Tani, Ronald Lewis and John Fraser.[1] It was based on a novel by Richard Mason.
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- Dirk Bogarde as Flight Lieutenant Michael Quinn
- Yoki Tani as Sabbi
- Ronald Lewis as Fenwick
- John Fraser as Peter Munroe
- Anthony Bushell as Brigadier
- Heihachirô Ôkawa as Lieutenant Nakamura
- Marne Maitland as Bahadur
- Michael Medwin as Officer Lamb
- Richard Leech as Hobson
- Tony Wager as Moss
- Tadashi Ikeda as Itsumi San
- Yôichi Matsue as Corporal Mori
- Donald Pleasence as Doctor
- Joy Michael as First nurse
- Avice Landone as Second nurse
The plot of this fikm took place in Burma and India during World war II. A British officer fells in love with a japanese woman when he is learning japanese.They began a romance but the issue is that she is the enemy and she is not accepted by his countrymen.Later, he is captured by the japanese army when he was patrolling with a brigadier and a indian driver in a zone controlled by the japs.He escaped and returned to his own lines just to discover that his fiancee is suffering of a brain tumor and died. LOVE THAT WAS FORBIDDEN . . . but could not be denied! Dirk Bogarde in India circa 1943 training to fight the Japanese, falls in love with a self-exiled Japanese woman (his instructor at military language school). In 1955 David Lean agreed to film Richard Mason's novel The Wind Cannot Read, the story of a romance between a British officer and a Japanese girl in India during World World Two. He completed a script and cast Kishi Keiko as the girl, but disagreed with Alexander Korda, and the project fell through. Lean had already entered into discussions with Sam Spiegel, regarding a film version of Pierre Boule's novel The Bridge on the River Kwai. After Korda's death in 1956 the rights to Mason's novel were sold to Rank Film Productions, who successfully realised the film in 1958, using the script Lean had written with Mason. Betty Box produced and Ralph Thomas directed this version, which starred Dirk Bogarde and Yoko Tani. Very well photographed with some great scenes of India. A diverting film.
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