About 13 years ago there was a drama series following a japanese and a american soldier and it told of their tales which both meeting at the end with the jap soldier a prisoner in a us military base. it was on about the same time as lipstick on your collar. Any ideas wot it was called
There is also the marvellous John Boorman film Hell In The Pacific starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune as opposing soldiers stranded on a Pacific island.