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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
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| Directed by | Nagisa Oshima |
| Produced by | Jeremy Thomas |
| Written by | Nagisa Oshima Paul Mayersberg |
| Starring | David Bowie Tom Conti Ryuichi Sakamoto Takeshi Kitano |
| Music by | Ryuichi Sakamoto |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures (USA) Palace Pictures (UK) Optimum Releasing (UK, DVD) |
| Release date(s) | 1983 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 118 min. |
| Language | Japanese, English |
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Senjou no Merii Kurisumasu aka Furyo in many European editions) is a 1983 movie directed by Nagisa Oshima, produced by Jeremy Thomas and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Takeshi Kitano. It was written by Oshima and Paul Mayersberg and based on World War II experiences as a prisoner of war of the writer Laurens van der Post as told in his works The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970). Ryuichi Sakamoto also wrote the musical score.
The film deals with the relationships among four men in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War - Jack Celliers (Bowie), a rebellious prisoner with a guilty secret; Captain Yonoi (Sakamoto), the young camp commandant; John Lawrence (Conti), a British officer who has lived in Japan and speaks Japanese fluently; and Sergeant Hara (Kitano), with whom Lawrence develops a peculiar friendship.
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