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Heroes II: The Return

Drama

War & Politics

Heroes II: the Return is a 1991 Australian mini-series about Operation Rimau during World War II. The true and tragic story of Operation Rimau, one of the most daring raids of WW2. In September 1944 Ivan Lyon and 22 Australian and British troops attempted to blow up Japanese ships in Singapore. Just 10 miles away from the target they are discovered and so begin a long and desperate bid to escape to Australia. The series shows how after the war it is revealled that 13 men were killed during the pursuit and that the remaining 10 were murdered by the Japanese in a war crime. Tragically this was covered up and their killers were never charged while the men themselves never received any honours for their heroism.

Date: 12/15/1991

Rating: 8.0

Cast: Nathaniel Parker, John Bach, Craig McLachlan, Miranda Otto, Simon Burke, Ken Teraizumi, Mark Lewis Jones, Ian Bolt, Anne-Louise Lambert, Wayne Scott Kermond, Troy Willats, Kelly Dingwall, John O'Hare, Kenneth Radley, Brett Partridge, Malcolm Robertson, Barbara Lowing, Edmund Pegge, Kate Sheil, Kit Taylor, Felix Nobis, Wayne Pygram, Paul Kennedy, Peter Healy, Peter Muller, Peter Lehner, Richard Lindsell, Greg Jones, Jonathan Sweet, Leon Teague, Brandan O'Connell, Robin Bowering, Brendon Lunney, Tarō Ishida, Donald MacDonald, Gō Awazu, Jim Kemp, Kazuhiro Muroyama, Warwick Tennant Moss, Ken Senga, Brian McDermott, Alan Faulkner, Robert Davis, Gregg Arthur, John Meillon Jr., Christopher Betts, Alan McQueen, Damian Cudmore, Liberty Lee, Earle Cross, Pudji Waseso, Gandhi MacIntyre, Raymond Chan, Johann Huang, Arif Hidayat, Marcus Schultz

Nathaniel Parker