The Bridge on the River Kwai (2/8) Movie CLIP - Dinner with Saito (1957) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) tries several bribery tactics to convince Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) to order his officers to work on the construction of the bridge, but Nicholson will have none of it.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over the river Kwai, which will be used to transport Japanese munitions. Nicholson refuses, despite all the various "persuasive" devices at Saito's disposal. Finally, Nicholson agrees, not so much to cooperate with his captor as to provide a morale-boosting project for the military engineers under his command. The colonel will prove that, by building a better bridge than Saito's men could build, the British soldier is a superior being even when under the thumb of the enemy. As the bridge goes up, Nicholson becomes obsessed with completing it to perfection, eventually losing sight of the fact that it will benefit the Japanese. Meanwhile, American POW Shears (William Holden), having escaped from the camp, agrees to save himself from a court martial by leading a group of British soldiers back to the camp to destroy Nicholson's bridge. Upon his return, Shears realizes that Nicholson's mania to complete his project has driven him mad. Filmed in Ceylon, Bridge on the River Kwai won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for the legendary British filmmaker David Lean, and Best Actor for Guinness. It also won Best Screenplay for Pierre Boulle, the author of the novel on which the film was based, even though the actual writers were blacklisted writers Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, who were given their Oscars under the table.
CREDITS:
TM & © Sony (1957)
Cast: Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa
Director: David Lean
Producers: Sam Spiegel, Jim Painten
Screenwriters: Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle
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[@terrorsaur599]

This scene earned Sessue Hayakawa his Oscar nomination and, in my humble opinion, should’ve earned him the win.

[@donarthiazi2443]

Yes I agree he was very good. But I do like the film _Sayonara_ and Red Buttons was very good in a Best Supporting role. He deserved the Oscar too. I wish they both could have won. Japanese actress Miyoshi Umeki also deserved her Best Supporting Oscar in _Sayonara_ in my opinion.

[@Driven2Beers]

This entire scene is such a pleasure to watch! Hayakawa and Guinness... words fail me on the awesomeness!

[@jameswydick2855]

Driven2Beers P

[@hamburgareable]

I concur

[@Debraj1978]

I am neither British nor Japanese. But I like this movie so much, watched it like some 25 times. Mainly fot the emotions, flow of events and also becuase, my home is close to Myanmar. Uptill recently, there was a meter gauge railway track (fully functional) that was made in 1903.

[@Craigstaaygear]

its an absolutely brilliant film indeed, one of the best ever made. respekt to ya n your home

[@Nmax]

​@@CraigstaaygearYes this s a gem of a film. Wonderful cast

[@chrisS19019]

Film lovers across the world all feel similar emotions and it’s so cool. As humans there are some things that speaks to all of us regardless of culture. Cool stuff

[@OAleathaO]

I like how Saito says, "Let's not get excited" when it is he who is the only one getting excited.

[@Kelly14UK]

Indeed. Quite, old girl.

[@franklotion8]

Are you joes wife?

[@harleypocky379]

He's talking to himself. Like my father when we talk a good topic XDD

[@SSArcher11]

"Please sit down" -- I appreciate this clip ending on that beautiful line. Col. Nicholson is now in charge.

[@Evman95]

“Ah, the Negotiator.”

[@ruskibeaner5983]

Clever

[@andrewpestotnik5495]

They were indeed short.

[@sporty1701]

All great war movies are not about the battles. Rather, they are about the individuals who are immersed in an incomprehensibly awful situation. This movie is one of the very best examples.

[@x66Hawk66x]

100% I first watched this film around 20 years ago aged 10 at the time, it was one of my favourite films. This film ranks up with the best including Das Boot, A bridge too far and hope and glory.

[@sporty1701]

@@x66Hawk66x Another truly amazing WWII movie...Conspiracy, starring Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci. This is a very unique movie in so many ways.

[@delavalmilker]

"This is WAR! Not a game of cricket!!!"

[@metsot]

Love that one!

[@risxy006]

True!

[@hamburgareable]

Accurate!

[@Edge21190]

Best lines in the whole movie: Saito: "Do you know what would happen to me if the bridge is not ready on time?" Nicholson: "I haven't the foggiest." Saito: "I'll have to kill myself. What would you do if you are me?" Nicholson: "Ah, I'd suppose if I were you, I'd have to kill myself. Cheers."

[@Zwei4815]

Q: "I stand before you a mere mortal like yourself! What must I do to make you believe me?" Worf: "Die."

[@terrorsaur599]

Those lines perfectly encapsulates Nicholson’s and Saito’s characters. Saito follows the system because he has to, while Nicholson follows the system because he fully believes in it.

[@xzeroevil]

@@Zwei4815 great reference :)

[@slyasleep]

@@terrorsaur599 A variation on the famous Churchill dictum, I suppose?

[@LastCommodore]

"I suppose if I were you, I'd have to kill myself ... cheers." That line cracks me up every time.

[@pix046]

"I'm sure we can arrive at a proper solution. Please sit down." That is state of the art turning a situation to your advantage.

[@700gsteak]

lol at the subtitles: "If i were to diet, others will have to diet before me!"

[@risxy006]

Ha,Ha I don't think anyone needs caption to understand what he says.

[@andreasv9472]

That's why them POWs are so skinny

[@felicialartey8865]

​​@@andreasv9472 Yes me at 280 pound watching this. Seeing skeletons thats works in the movie i feel that.

[@WillScarlet16]

"But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth." -Rudyard Kipling.

[@ComradeConfucius]

Saito serving Johnny Walker Red Label to a guest is his biggest war crime.

[@SynchronizorVideos]

The red label was a mid-range scotch during WWII, not the bottom of the company's line like it is today.

[@nmota12]

The guy with the British accents is the one who played a role as Obi-Wan Kenobi, isn't he? And the film has a word - Kwai at the end. I FEEL the connection. Thank you, George Lucas....

[@sniperdafox7372]

Alec Guinness

[@kfer9249]

SIR Alec Guiness!

[@TheZMATIN]

Long before he played Obi Wan Kenobi, he already gained reputation as one of the greatest actors of all time. Watch his work in Ealing comedies, David Lean's other films and in countless other great British films to realise his great acting prowess. And Kwai was a river in Thailand.

[@rohanmarkjay]

He could handle Col. Saito and Darth Vader and get better of both. Great actor.

[@attilaamihan6196]

Literally He Could Handle Saddam Hussein

[@chrisholland7367]

The Thai Burma railway. The railway of death cost the lives of an estimated 12,000 POWs hundreds of thousands of indigenous peoples also died pressed into slavery by the Japanese .

[@poliferroso2]

I always have thought this movie should be seen by anybody who wants to work as a consultant/contractor: the owner will look as a pawn, and sometimes as your enemy, but if you are good enough and smarter than your "enemy", then you're gonna be the real owner of the project... the "please sit down" is the pivotal moment in the contract.

[@utopian3d]

Saito: I hate the British. You are defeated but have no shame. You are stubborn but have no pride. You endure but have no courage.

[@TwilightEpiphany]

strikes a different chord in this day and age

[@PBurns-ng3gw]

First dates can be awkward.

[@tylerstadt9957]

My parents didn't take me to Blockbuster. They took me to the library for movies. I'm 43 prolly been watchin this movie since age 14 n it just gets better n better

[@anthonywright6237]

Then you will surely appreciate what they did for you marra.. it sounds like you had good parents

[@aegir5198]

I never saw the movie, and just quickly went "ben kenobi is that you?!"

[@wassadhappinau3096]

watch the movie it is nice

[@adriannn3720]

@@wassadhappinau3096 better than star wars

[@LambertBowden56]

0:57 "prease!"

[@Shah-of-the-Shinebox]

Despite Saito technically being the villain, he's the only one in the movie just trying to do his job. Everyone else has the priorities in the wrong place.

[@anthonywright6237]

You mean like when the proud Englishman was genuinely happy to oblige with building the bridge

[@Shah-of-the-Shinebox]

​@@anthonywright6237exactly

[@leaomartinofaria1667]

Grande filme... campeão de bilheteria!

[@terrorsaur599]

I love the irony of how both colonels are characterized. Saito, serving the fanatical Japanese Army, is ultimately a victim of circumstance. He didn’t want to be soldier, even stating he wanted to be painter. It is only because he was pressured by his father, and the society he lived in, that he studied engineering and joined the army. As a camp commandant, he only mistreated prisoners when absolutely necessary and was never sadistic or cruel. He wanted the bridge built not to win the war, but so he could live. He wasn’t a villain, he just happened to fought for a villainous country. Nicholson, serving the virtuous British Army, is ultimately a delusional narcissist. He believed his side had the best principles and thus any rules they made should ALWAYS be followed. This caused many missed opportunities to either hinder the enemy or actually help his side. The only time he did oppose Saito’s orders was when he contradicted his side’s principles. When Saito finally relented those contradictions, he gladly started helping him actually build the bridge. He believed it would aid his side and demonstrate the quality of its character, but all it did was help the other side win the war. He wasn’t a hero, he just happened to fight for a heroic country. Neither colonels reflect the personalities of their nation’s armies. If anything, they reflect the armies they are fighting AGAINST. This is why the film tells such a great war story. Honorable people like Saito can end up serving the wicked and immoral people like Nicholson can end up serving the well-intentioned.

[@danielbrissenden2555]

I love when Saito starts railing on about his hatred of the British! It comes off like a well-considered speech of praise, even though he is trying to insult with every word! Ha!

[@yodalf42]

i intend to make a full report XD best quote ever

[@shanekilpatrick3378]

Don’t mess with Obi Wan Kenobi. Can’t get him angry. He’s too good a Jedi for that

[@vijeshb8420]

Almost 2 decades in corporate world and I see most of the managers\leaders as either of these ,ruthless and failure\idealistic and failures .For every 100 i see one who is like the lead samurai in the seven samurai. This and Seven samurai should be lessons in people management!

[@australianvaletraincuthber9294]

One of the best acted scenes I’ve seen

[@JeepersCreepers2013]

Obi-Wan.... Obi-Wan Kebobi.... now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, a long time

[@billthestinker]

Saito is in love with the colonel

[@Fat12219]

Good old war movie 🎬

[@billbright1755]

You will build my bridge, on time, like it or not.

[@adamdesouza6153]

We will build the bridge, OUR way, like it or not.

[@RadagonTheRed]

My great grandfather was taken prisoner by the Japanese and my grandmother still harbours deep anti-Japanese sentiment to this day as a result of the terrible treatment her father received during the war. 🇬🇧

[@madzen112]

Read the book during my second year in high school. It's definitely worth a read, also if you watched the movie.

[@ComradeConfucius]

Obi Wan playing mind games with Colonel Saito

[@KaziAfrozJahan]

These Japanese soldiers are friendly towards their enemies

[@zhuangsaur227]

I wonder with the Geneva Convention why they didnt perhaps even put 'in articles of war a lower ranking soldier cannot shoot an enemy officer' or even a rule that forbade wounding or killing an enemy officer.

[@jamielunes1841]

The British 😂

[@JohnSmith47534]

I watched the whole movie and I just realised it's freaking Obi Wan Kenoooobi ! WTF!!!

[@hafabee]

And afterward I shall give you a stern lecture.

[@bobbywoods684]

I don't think the real life British soldiers and officers were too happy with G's portrayal.

[@slmb_b]

Master Kenobi

[@David-jw7km]

So his objection is about officers working?

[@rygarrygar-cj7vk]

Take the cigar and then so no

[@sneeki8082]

0:58 Reese

[@shutg6075]

OBI WAN! :O

[@fredo1070]

This is not the bridge you are looking for.

[@el_chief_dannyboy]

Obi wan Kenobi!

[@DartLuke]

It is over, Saito. I have high ground

[@Kelly14UK]

Bottle of the old Kilmarnock Hill Street's Johnnie Walker Red in the back.

[@tommaxson9798]

Real surviving WW2 Japanese commanders I’m sure; scoffed disdainfully at Colonel Saito’s submission to a captured enemy prisoner. Even if that prisoner is Sir Alec Guinness! Colonel Saito is the very rare exception to the vast majority of Imperial Japanese Commanders is WW2.

[@rohanmarkjay]

True in reality most Japanese Prison Commanders were not as nice Col. Saito. Most were quite horrific. Watch Return from the River Kwai 1989 and George Takei plays a Japanese Prison Commander how most really were in WW2.

[@makeit7579]

Dr. Zeus vs Dr. Zeus

[@johnzajac9849]

What?! Saito didn't have any Talisker 10? それは恥ずべきことだ。

[@galenhof3371]

Corned beef and Johnny Walker Red for dinner....yum!

[@Thorny5718]

😂💪🏻

[@BABYYSARA3831]

HART WAR

[@johnklaas2528]

Who cares about work when neither had a good bridge

[@tacobell6826]

Great film, but too much jingo and too little reality. The Japanese were expert civil engineers and bridge-builders. The notion that Saito & Co would either need or take construction advice from British POWs is ridiculous. Even more ridiculous is this scene, where an educated Japanese Colonel offers Spam and Whiskey to a POW officer. A. Any Japanese officer would have realised that such a combination was inappropriate and disgusting, and B. He would have decapitated Nicholson before allowing him to sit at the same table. Great fun as a film, but not quite a documentary.

[@delavalmilker]

Agreed. While a good story, it doesn't really show how brutal the Japanese would have been in reality. If they had refused to build the bridge.

[@stevenichols2938]

Japanese army officers are all engineering experts? A POW can't be enticed with food? You might not sit at the same table as a person you are coercing? News to me, and to plenty of others with SERE experience. You might stick with fast food my friend. : )

[@Aragorn106654]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

[@MrJm323]

"Japanese officers are all engineering experts?" Uh, ...I think it's reasonable to assume that the officers with Japanese Army corp of engineers (do you really suppose they didn't have one?) would be engineering experts, yes. ...Do you really think that an INFANTRY officer (or quartermaster officer) would have been given the responsibility to build a bridge - and one that was supposed to support a locomotive? ...Really?!? This is NEWS to you? ....You who have SERE experience? (Survival, Escape, Resistance, Evasion training. ....No, wait! Not just training, but "experience"!! ....Like Andy McNab of 'Bravo-Two-Zero', eh? ...Please tell us more! ....Wait! Before you tell us your stories, I gotta get another bag of Cheet-ohs to munch on!) But, yeah, tell us which unit you served in (for which you were obliged to get SERE training - and used it in real life!), ....but yet never learned that a modern army which might deign to take on the British and Americans would really have a 'corps of engineers' (and naturally task THEM to build their frickin' railway bridges)!!

[@mk-ultraviolence1760]

Is the movie unrealistic? = Yes, very. Does that matter?: No. Is the movie jingoistic?: This is not the term you are looking for. Move along.

[@gregoryreese8491]

Heaven forfend that a _gentleman,_ let alone a British officer, should perform _(shudder)_ manual labour. Friggin' patronizing British aristos had nothing on India's Brahmins when it came to considering themselves intrinsically of greater worth than their fellow citizens.

[@harrythomas1252]

It’s literally the Geneva convention

[@theshitheads3178]

Lol playing off classism as bravery. This world is sick.

[@theshitheads3178]

God forbid an officer picks up a shovel! Why his family is better than that!

[@jasonyang966]

A movie about Stubborn British White privilege

[@maxashford9463]

Read the book and i'm sure you'll have a different opinion, bringing modern day bitchy problems back into a time where you did as you were told and had respect for yourself and the men around you.

[@deskfan3615]

jason Yang shut up you idiot

[@alexmonro1711]

Did you just call literal prisoners of war "privileged"? And anyway its more about how the colonel pretty much goes mad.

[@vonhumboldt1985]

dimwit

[@MrJm323]

Are all of you who are replying to "jason Yang" devoid of ...humor?