The Wind Cannot Read

The Wind Cannot Read is a 1958 British drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Yoko Tani, Ronald Lewis and John Fraser. It was based on a novel by Richard Mason.

A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen. Later he is captured by the Japanese army when he is patrolling with a brigadier and an Indian driver in a Japanesecontrolled zone. He escapes and returns to his own lines, only to discover that his fiance is suffering from a brain tumor and dies.In 1955 David Lean agreed to film Richard Masons novel The Wind Cannot Read, the story of a romance between a British officer and a selfexiled Japanese woman in India circa 1943, during World World II. ........

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