Railway Man, The

When PTSD-suffering Englishman Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), who was a victim of the "Death Railway" and helped build the Thai/Burma railroad, meets his gorgeous wife Patti (Nicole Kidman) on a train in Britain and then by chance at the train station his nightmares are triggered when he bumps into the Japanese officer (Hiroyuki Sanada) who was responsible for the horrific, unimaginable torture he endured in a Japanese POW camp during WWII in this riveting, gut-wrenching, well-acted, factually based, 116-minute, 2013 film based on Eric Lomax's bestselling autobiography, his desperate wife seeks the advice of his commanding Army officer (Stellan SkarsgÄrd).
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