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Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
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The story takes place on a film set in Java at a Japanese POW camp in 1942. It is about a complex relationship between a rebellious prisoner, David Bowie and camp commandant Ryuichi Sakomoto who is obsessed by Bowie's attitude.
Actors:
David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson, Johnny Ohkura, Alistair Browning, James Malcolm, Chris Broun, Yûya Uchida, Ryûnosuke Kaneda, ...»
Director:
Nagisa Ôshima
Country:
United Kingdom
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#Cineventure Productions London #David Bowie #Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence #Nagisa Ôshima #National Film Trustees #Recorded Picture Company (RPC) #Ryuichi Sakamoto #Tom Conti
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David Bowie
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Tom Conti
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Takeshi Kitano
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Jack Thompson
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Geoff Clendon
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Richard Adams
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Combustible Celluloid
October 01, 2010 It's relentlessly grim, constantly off-balance, occasionally moving, and often striking.
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Spirituality and Practice
July 23, 2003 A compelling cross-cultural study of friendship and bravery
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Village Voice
October 02, 2008 From Oshima's later career... most notable is this bilingual, end-of-WWII tearjerker about forgiveness and understanding between cultures, which could have been dubbed The Man Who Fell to Java.
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Chicago Reader
January 01, 2000 The context and frequent incontinence of the execution bring the film uncomfortably close to the pseudophilosophical bondage fantasies of Yukio Mishima.
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Urban Cinefile
May 01, 2008 David Bowie is outstanding as the defiant British prisoner whose erotic appeal undoes the Japanese commandant, played by Sakamoto, who was at the height of his fame as a musical icon in Japan
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Time Out
June 24, 2006 For all the praise heaped upon Oshima's admittedly ambitious film about East-West relations in the microcosm of a Japanese PoW camp during World War II, it's far less satisfactory than most of his earlier work.
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TIME Magazine
December 10, 2008 The Merry Christmas catalogue of atrocities finally becomes numbing, even ludicrous.
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Chicago Sun-Times
October 23, 2004 Here's a movie that is even stranger than it was intended to be.
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TV Guide
July 30, 2003 Fine performances by Conti, Takeshi (brilliant in his first dramatic role), Sakamoto (a Japanese pop star in his film acting debut who also contributed the memorable score), and Bowie enhance this provocative film.
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Q Network Film Desk
October 12, 2010 The film’s attention is split fairly evenly across the major characters, and their interactions are consistently fascinating in the way they illustrate both the cultural divide and the halting attempts to somehow bridge it.
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