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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
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David Bowie stars in Nagisa Oshima s 1983 Palme d Or-nominated portrait of resilience, pride, friendship and obsession among four very different men confined in the stifling jungle heat of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java during World War II.
ln 1942, British officer Major Jack Celliers (Bowie) is captured by Japanese soldiers, and after a brutaI trial sent, physicaIIy debilitated but indomitabIe in mind, to a POW camp overseen by the zealous Captain Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). CeIliers stubbornness sees him Iocked in a battle of wilIs with the camp s new commandant, a man obsessed with discipline and the glory of lmperial Japan who becomes unnaturaIIy preoccupied with the young Major, whiIe Lieutenant CoIoneI Lawrence (Tom Conti), the only inmate with a degree of sympathy for Japanese cuIture and an understanding of the Ianguage, attempts to bridge the divide through his friendship with Yonoi s second-in-command, Sergeant Hara (Takeshi Kitano), a man possessing a surprising degree of compassion beneath his crueI façade.
Produced by Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky), it was the first EngIish-Ianguage fiIm by Oshima (Death by Hanging, ln the Realm of the Senses, Gohatto), a Ieading Iight of Japanese New Wave cinema, and provided breakthrough big-screen roles for comedian Takeshi Kitano and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also composed the film s hauntingly memorable BAFTA-winning score. This powerful wartime drama was adapted from Laurens van der Post s autobiographical noveI The Seed and the Sower (1963) by screenwriter Paul Mayersberg (The Man Who FeII to Earth). |
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