Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Mon Nov 04, 2013

20:15

Location

Rio Cinema
125 Ellados Street
Limassol, Limassol

Limassol Cine Club
Phone: 25745112

Description

During World War II Col. John Lawrence is a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp commanded by Captain Yonoi and Sgt. Hara. Lawrence speaks Japanese fluently and understands the way they think. The Japanese see the British as dishonorable and weak for having surrendered. The POW commander will have nothing of it however and sometimes treats Lawrence as a collaborator and refuses to follow his advice. For him, the Japanese are cruel and bloodthirsty and not the loyal and brave soldiers that they believe they are. The arrival of a new prisoner, Maj. Jack Celliers, has an effect on all of them.

Cast:
David Bowie (Maj. Jack 'Strafer' Celliers)
Tom Conti (Col. John Lawrence)
Ryûichi Sakamoto (Capt. Yonoi)
Takeshi Kitano (Sgt. Gengo Hara)

Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Writer: Laurens Van der Post, Nagisa Ôshima
Runtime: 123 min
Genre: Drama, War
Language: English, Japanese
Production Year: 1983

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