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Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (BluRayDVD, 2011)

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A wartime drama which finds a group of POWs in a Japanese POW camp. When Major Celliers arrives at the camp the Japanese camp commander believes him to be an evil spirit. A battle of wills begins between the two men.

Product Identifiers

ProducerJeremy Thomas

EAN5055201818720

eBay Product ID (ePID)12048547578

Product Key Features

ActorDavid Bowie, 'beat' Takeshi Kitano, Tom Conti, Johnny Okura, Alistair Browning, Jack Thompson

Film/TV TitleMerry Christmas Mr Lawrence

DirectorNagisa Oshima

LanguageEnglish

Run Time179 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen

Release Year2011

FormatBluraydvd

FeaturesExclusive interviews with Nagisa Oshima, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Jeremy Thomas The Oshima Gang: 30 minute making of documentary \Theatrical trailer, Widescreen

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureJapan

Production DesignerAndrew Sanders

Additional InformationMERRY 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 prisoners' unwillingness to protest their cruel treatment is a sign of weakness, Sakomoto is most impressed by Bowie's enigmatic defiance. While Bowie and Sakomoto seem to be operating on a high spiritual and intellectual plane, bilingual prisoner Tom Conti (the Mr. Lawrence of the title) engages in a more standard adversarial relationship with sadistic sergeant Takeshi Kitano.

ScreenwriterPaul Mayersberg, Nagisa Oshima

Art DirectorAndrew Sanders

Sound sourceDolby Digital

EditorTomoyo Oshima

Movie/TV TitleMerry Christmas Mr Lawrence

Director of PhotographyToichiro Narushima

Consumer AdviceContains strong violence and language, and moderate sex references