Product Details

• Actors: Mark Dacascos, Guy Ecker, Jeff Fahey, Jason Scott Lee, Gina Hiraizumi
• Directors: Lane Nishikawa
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Indican
• DVD Release Date: November 10, 2009
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002AT4PA0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,540 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Only the Brave" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Low budget, yes, but still powerful, moving, historical, April 19, 2010

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Miami Nights (USA) - See all my reviews

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"Only the Brave" isn't the best war movie around, nor does it have the shine or polish seen in big-budget, Hollywood movies, but it's very moving, knowing that what happened to the soldiers in the movie is based on historical fact.

"Only the Brave" is about the efforts of the 442/100 military regiment to rescue a Texas battalion that got stuck behind enemy lines during WWII. In doing so, they lost more soldiers than they ended up rescuing.

What makes this movie quite the rarity in American entertainment is that the soldiers at the center of the movie are Japanese-American. Perhaps with a bigger budget, it could have had more screen time to fully flesh out the main characters (played by Lane Nishikawa, Jason Scott Lee, Tamlyn Tomita, Mark Dacascos, Yuji Okumoto and Greg Watanabe), but it does well enough to pass on this rather underreported part of American/WWII history. While they and their families were in American internment camps, they volunteered to join the American military, to prove that they were just as American as anyone else living in the country.

Some critics have given negative reviews of this movie, but I tend to be more lenient with low-budget films. But this movie does overcome its budget restraints and delivers emotionally powerful scenes, and the film is also interesting and educational. It might be of more immediate interest to Japanese-Americans, but it deserves to be seen by those who don't know the history of Japanese-American soldiers.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good popcorn B movie, May 6, 2010

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This movie is not easy to find. It never made it into the theaters in our region, darn it.

My brother happened to see it in California and said it was worth finding the DVD. Checked ebay (ripoff prices galore) and Amazon, and again, Amazon won hands down.

It's a good B movie action flick. Have watched it twice now and am glad I bought it. It will go into the my collection.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Only the Brave, June 21, 2010

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John Smith (East Hartford, CT United States) - See all my reviews

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The movie's value is it captures a story that actually happened, that needs to be shared with schoolchildren that might never have known the truth. The film itself comes across without enough action to hold the audience's attention, which is too bad, because it is worthwhile information that people should know about.