The Wind Cannot Read

Bogarde, a Royal Air Force officer in Burma during the early days of World War II, is transferred to India to learn Japanese so he can become an interrogator of prisoners of war. He falls in love with his instructor, Tani, the daughter of a Japanese liberal who fled his country during the rise to power of Tojo and his militants. The pair do a lot of sightseeing and, because the RAF would refuse him permission, they secretly marry. Soon after, Bogarde is sent to the front and in short order is captured by the Japanese. Tani joins All India Radio, beaming British propaganda to the enemy. Bogarde listens intently from the camp where he has been tortured and humiliated...