Hiroyuki Sanada
The book was made into a BBC television drama "Prisoners in Time" (1995), starring John Hurt as Lomax. It was later adapted into a film, "The Railway Man" (2013), directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, and starring Colin Firth and Jeremy Irvine, (as Lomax Old/Young), Nicole Kidman (as Patti), Hiroyuki Sanada, and Stellan Skarsgård.