Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence / a Jeremy Thomas production ; a Nagisa Oshima film ; screenplay by Nagisa Oshima with Paul Mayersberg ; producer, Jeremy Thomas ; directed by Nagisa Oshima ; National Film Trustee Company ; made in association with Antares-Nova N.V., Recorded Picture Company, Oshima Productions, Asahi National Broadcasting Co. Ltd. and Broadbank Investments Limited.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence / a Jeremy Thomas production ; a Nagisa Oshima film ; screenplay by Nagisa Oshima with Paul Mayersberg ; producer, Jeremy Thomas ; directed by Nagisa Oshima ; National Film Trustee Company ; made in association with Antares-Nova N.V., Recorded Picture Company, Oshima Productions, Asahi National Broadcasting Co. Ltd. and Broadbank Investments Limited.

In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can...

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Main Author: Sakamoto, Ryūichi, 1952-2023 (Composer, Actor)
Contributors: Thomas, Jeremy (Producer), Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932-2013 (Screenwriter, Director), Mayersberg, Paul (Screenwriter), Bowie, David (Actor), Conti, Tom (Actor), Bīto Takeshi (Actor), Thompson, Jack, 1940- (Actor), Lemle, Mickey (Director, Producer), Van der Post, Laurens
Corporate Contributors: Lemle Pictures, Inc, South African Broadcasting Corporation, National Film Trustee Company, Antares-Nova N.V, Recorded Picture Company, Ōshima Nagisa Purodakushon, BS Asahi (Firm), Broadbank Investments Ltd, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Japanese
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2010.
Edition:Widescreen.
Series:Criterion collection ; 535.
Subjects:
Van der Post, Laurens > Film adaptations.
World War, 1939-1945 > Drama.
Prisoners of war > Drama.
Soldiers > Psychology > Drama.
War > Psychological aspects > Drama.
Prisoners of war > Great Britain > Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese > Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Indonesia > Java > Drama.
Java (Indonesia)
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