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Colonel Saito wanted to have the bridge built but he was under orders first from the Japanese Imperial Army but later in the film it's Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson who wants to have the bridge built as a testimony to the sacrifices made by the men under his command representing the British engineering skills .

To provide a general answer, the Japanese were trying to take control of the countries in the South-East Asia. The Japanese were allies of Germany and, like Germany, were trying to conquer nearby territories in order to have more resources to fight the war. The Japanese were building a railroad that crossed present-day Viet Nam and Thailand. The bridge did actually exist and was built in western Thailand using British Prisoners of War.

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