Based on the true story, Olympian and Japanese prison camp survivor.

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2015)

This is just a real good story about a really good and brave man during World War Two. He went on to survive and live a very long life, dying in 2014 at the age of 97, but this movie is specific to the war years.
Jack O'Connell plays Louis Zamperini who was born to Italian immigrants and as a young boy had a natural ability to run fast and actually represented the USA as a teenager in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. In his early 20s when WW2 broke out he was a bombardier in the Army Air Corps. Surviving hazardous bombing runs, a plane he was in went down at sea on the way to do a rescue. After 47 days at sea they were rescued, but by the Japanese and sent to prison camp.
Most of the movie is Zamperini's survival, "unbroken", during his two years in prison camp. Takamasa Ishihara plays the unmerciful head of the camp, Watanabe. He was a brutal man and as this story goes he took a particular interest in the "Olympian" and took every opportunity he had to try to break him, but Zamperini always got up and continued on.
We are also told that Zamperini later in life returned to Japan and looked up as many of his captors as he could so that they could make mutual amends, but that Watanabe refused to meet with him.