Summary:
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence was the first English-language project of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses). In tune with his previous filmic essays on racism and brutality, Merry Christmas concentrates on a war of wills between rebellious POW David Bowie and camp commandant Ryuichi Sakomoto. Assuming that his other prisoner... Full Summary >>

Cast:
David Bowie - (Celliers)
Tom Conti - (Col. John Lawrence)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - (Yonoi)
Jack Thompson - (Hicksley)
Johnny Okura - (Kanemoto)
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Review:
Director Nagisa Oshima and co-writer Paul Mayersburg's narrative is more fractured than in most films of the POW camp genre, in which the story inevitably leads to some kind of escape. They are interested in exploring the psychology of their characters and the geometry of the camp, in which the captors are both wardens and interrogators, and ... Continue >>

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