When Celliers does up his buttons after showing the court evidence of his beatings, they are misaligned; in the next shot they have been corrected.
In the final scene in the prison cell, the cross belt of Lt Col Lawrence's Sam Browne is fitted back to front.
When Yonoi enters the military headquarters in Batavia (which was filmed at Auckland Railway Station), the New Zealand coat of arms can fleetingly be seen etched into the building's glass doors.
The locomotive shown in Celliers' flashback of his brother leaving for school is a Ja class locomotive (Ja1250), a type only ever used in New Zealand, even though the action is supposedly taking place in Australia.
During Cellier's trial, he is heard to say "you know that the Commander in Java was captured in March", but his lips appear to say "...captured in June."