Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
by Nagisa Oshima
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Actor: David Bowie, Jack Thompson, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Tom ContiDirector: Nagisa Oshima
Writer: Nagisa Oshima
Producer: Eiko Oshima
Producer: Geoffrey Nethercott
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Producer: Joyce Herlihy
Writer: Laurens Van der Post
Writer: Paul Mayersberg
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Import, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: LW Editora
Movie Reviews of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Movie Review: An accurate presentation, within confines of an R rating
Summary: 4 Stars
This film presented in a fair manner the abhorrent mentality of the Japanese during the days of their Empire; depicting that reality on film would have required an X rating, because their treatment of non-Japanese humans was beyond atrocious. Things ended in August 1945 exactly as they should have.
Summary of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
A highly unusual war movie with as many detractors as fans, this English-language feature directed by Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) stars David Bowie as a silent, ethereal POW in a Japanese camp. Protesting--via his own enigmatic rebellion--the camp's brutal conditions and treatment of prisoners, Bowie's character earns the respect of the camp commandant (Ryuichi Sakamoto). While the two seem locked in an unspoken, spiritual understanding, another prisoner (Tom Conti) engages in a more conventional resistance against a monstrous sergeant (Takeshi). The film has a way of evoking as many questions as certainties, and it is not always easy to understand the internal logic of the characters' actions. But that's generally true of Oshima's movies, in which the power of certain relationships is almost hallucinatory in self-referential intensity. The cast is outstanding, and Bowie is particularly fascinating in his alien way. --Tom KeoghArt House & International DVD Video
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