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MERRY CHRISTMAS MR LAWRENCE

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Year
1983
Reference
F5193
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1983
Reference
F5193
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
Japan, United Kingdom, New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Feature
Duration
2:02:00
Production company
Cineventure Productions, Recorded Picture Company
Credits
Celliers: David Bowie
Lawrence: Tom Conti
Yonoi: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Hara: Takeshi
Hicksley: Jack Thompson
Kanemoto: Johnny Okura
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Executive Producer: Masato Hara
Executive Producer: Geoffrey Nethercott
Executive Producer: Terry Glinwood
Screenplay: Nagisa Oshima
Screenplay: Paul Mayersberg
Based on the book “The Seed and the Sower”: Laurens Van Der Post
Director of Photography: Toichiro Narushima
Camera: Hiroaki Narushima
Editor: Tomoyo Oshima

“The story, based on a novel by Laurens Van Der Post, is set in a Japanese P.O.W. camp on Java in 1942. All cruelty and bitter misery of camp life is there. But there is also a curious bond created throughout the film between the Japanese and their Western prisoners” - (From Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence publicity pack)

“Set in a torture and hara-kiri-ridden World War II P.O.W camp, this international co- production explores the free floating, samurai-stern sexual attraction between Japanese jailers and their British captives” - (J. Hoberman, “Rockers”, The Village Voice, September 6, 1983)