Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Starring:David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson, Johnny Okura, Alistair Browning, James Malcolm, Chris Broun, Yuya Uchida, Ryunosuke Kaneda, Takashi NaitÃ´, Tamio Ishikura, Rokko Toura, Kan Mikami, Yuji Honma, Daisuke Iijima, Hideo Murota, Barry Dorking, Geoff Clendon
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Studio: C Logic
Product Type: DVD

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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Starring: David Bowie , Tom Conti , Ryuichi Sakamoto , Takeshi Kitano , and Jack Thompson
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Manufacturer: C Logic
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ASIN: B00008G68R
Release Date: 2002-05-14

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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 Keogh

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Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence [Region 2]
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Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Starring: David Bowie , Tom Conti , Ryuichi Sakamoto , Takeshi Kitano , and Jack Thompson
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Manufacturer: Manga Films
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Languages: o Spanish (subtitles) o English (Dolby Digital 2.0) o Spanish (Mono) Synopsis: Director Nagisa Oshima and co-writer Paul Mayersburg's narrative is more fractured than in most films of the POW camp genre, in which the story inevitably leads to some kind of escape. They are interested in exploring the psychology of their characters and the geometry of the camp, in which the captors are both wardens and interrogators, and the prisoners both captors and resisters. A rarity among prisoner of war films, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence also addresses the subject of homosexuality, not in overt fashion, but as a fact of POW camp life. Using two androgynous performers, Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also wrote the film's score) and British musician David Bowie, to play the adversaries Yonoi and Celliers, Oshima suggests that Celliers' ability to withstand abuse from his captors elicits more than just admiration from the commandant. Tom Conti's John Lawrence is the supposed bridge between the two warring sides, thanks to his ability to speak Japanese, but he is powerless to stop the sadistic Sergeant Hara (Beat Takeshi Kitano, here billed as "Takeshi") from abusing Celliers. If the film isn't the crowd-pleaser that The Great Escape was or a more coherent mediation on the officers' code that Grand Illusion was, it is an honest attempt to examine the cultural differences that mark the POW setting. Special Features: o Filmographies o Interactive Menu o Making Of o Scene Access o Trailer(s)

Special Collector's Edition: Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence [Non-US Format, Pal, Region 2, Import]

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Special Collector's Edition: Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence [Non-US Format, Pal, Region 2, Import]

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Region 2 encoding (Europe, Japan, South Africa and the Middle East including Egypt).
Requires multi-system DVD player in the US
Special Feature Information:
- Interviews with Nagisa Oshima And Ryuichi Sakamoto.
- The Oshima Gang Making Of Documentary.

ASIN: 8320813522

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Interviews with Nagisa Oshima And Ryuichi Sakamoto And Jerry Thomas / The Oshima Gang Making Of Documentary / Theatrical Trailer

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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence [Region 2]
Starring: David Bowie , Tom Conti , Ryuichi Sakamoto , Takeshi Kitano , and Jack Thompson
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