Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

  • Director: Nagisa Ôshima
  • Writer: Lourens van der Post,Nagisa Ôshima,Paul Mayersberg
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, New Zealand, Japan
  • Language: English, Japanese
  • Release date: September 2, 1983
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
  • "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" is a war drama released by Universal Pictures, released in Japan on May 28, 1983, directed by Nagisa Oshima , starring David Bowie , Ryuichi Sakamoto , Tom Conti , Kitano Takeshi , etc.
    Based on the novel "The Seed and the Sower" by British author Laurens van der Post , the film tells the story of a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Java, Indonesia in 1942, when Japanese officers and British prisoners of war on a hostile position fought each other, and at the same time, they had a spiritual life. Collision stories   .

    Details

    • Release date September 2, 1983
    • Filming locations Rarotonga, Cook Islands
    • Production companies National Film Trustee Company, Antares-Nova, Recorded Picture Company (RPC)

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,306,560

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $99,221

    Gross worldwide

    $2,306,560

    Movie reviews

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    • By Virginia 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      Merry Christmas

      It's rare to give a movie five stars. But if possible, I would like to give 100 stars to this movie. This is the saddest fairy tale I've ever seen. It's hard to imagine that it was made by a Japanese director. But you can still feel the forbearance contained in the conflict and the undercurrent of calm. The chrysanthemum and the knife are not wrong at all. Two places in the movie are particularly moving. One is destroying the funeral pedestal in Lawrence, breaking down and saying, it's your...

    • By Flo 2022-04-23 07:05:23

      The first film of the Shanghai Film Festival - adapted from "The Seed and the Sower"

      The first movie I saw at the 2021 Shanghai Film Festival. It's amazing to be able to make such a delicate yet uniquely styled film in 1983! Great! Great! The costume props and stage beauty pushed the robes and camaraderie to a climax, but Takeshi Kitano, who was in the strong theatrical performance, cast on the screen and really saw me in the seat, and there was really nice music. , and in the anti-war movie, all I see is anger

    • By Marion 2022-04-23 07:05:23

      Maybe we all need to repent

      As a short review wrote, I felt that the story was so long and boring during the movie. I didn't cry when I saw Takeshi Kitano's smile at the end, but the screen faded, and the music of Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence faded, thirty seconds later. I also don't know where I cried because of which character, which scene, which line, which story. My pity and sympathy overflowed but disappeared.

      Lawrence told Yonoi, "The thing that impressed me most about Japan was the snow, and the world...

    • By Rosalinda 2022-04-23 07:05:23

      Humans don't deserve Luo Ji

      I would like to call this film the background introduction of the soundtrack of the film "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The music of this film is very suitable for the tone of the work and elevates the atmosphere of the whole film to another, more restrained and intense. In the feeling of , add max points to the movie.

      In addition to the delicate narration of cultural and human emotional conflicts in the film, what is even more impressive is that at...

    • By Carmine 2022-04-23 07:05:23

      That "one seed"!

      "This is an anxious nation: one doesn't know what to do, so they go crazy together. So I don't hate any individual Japanese."

      "You're the victim of people who think they're right; but nobody's right... Sometimes victory can be overwhelming."

      "You are the victim of man who thinks they are right, just as one day, you and your captain Yanoi, believe absolutely that you were right."

      "It seems that the death...

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    • By Eriberto 2023-08-13 02:38:28

      It turns out that David Bowie is not only a great musician, but also a great actor. Ryuichi Sakamoto is so handsome! ! ! ! So pure and subtle homosexual love, those people's friendship is pure too. Sainoi must be shocked by Jake's beauty! ! ! ! !...

    • By Brain 2023-07-27 03:38:36

      This is also a movie from a Japanese perspective. Japanese and Western values ​​collide on this small battlefield. Nagisa Oshima is like opening the belly of the Japanese to reveal the spirit of shame. The camaraderie, or the spiritual fusion that is interpreted as a rose, makes the shame (or desire for redemption) of every individual in the foreign country to have the purest interlacing, and they reach the same destination on the day of redemption at...

    • By Phyllis 2023-07-24 18:27:19

      The cruelty of the war turned the elegant and easygoing Ryuichi Sakamoto into a brutal demon, and his reflection on the war also made the tyrannical Takeshi Kitano return to humanity and rationality. Compared with the two Japanese officers who were both pitiful people, David Bowie was free and easy from the beginning. At the end of the film, he used his sacrifice to plant seeds in the hearts of everyone drowned in the bitter sea of ​​war. Although the film wears the cloak of a same-sex film,...

    • By Demario 2023-06-28 08:33:54

      On the surface, Jack is the captive of Yonoi, but emotionally Yonoi has become Jack's captive from the first sight. That kiss was love, bravery, redemption, and a seed that disintegrated their once firm...

    • By Dandre 2023-06-24 06:18:31

      The loss of the soundtrack will make this film inferior to many of the story patterns. The joy on the surface and the grief deep inside this prisoner of war camp. He cut that lock of hair as a circumcision of his own same-sex plot and his love for this man. Unforgettable Takeshi Kitano said "Merry...

    Movie plot

    In 1942, the Second World War was in full swing, and Japan was invincible in every battlefield in Asia. In the tropical jungle of Java Island in the South China Sea, there is a Japanese prisoner of war detention center . The original style is rude and ruthless. He has never been merciless towards European and American prisoners of war, and is also very strict with his own soldiers. Although the British prisoner Lawrence ( Tom Conti )...
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    "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" is a story about a clash of cultures. This film, which is based on same-sex love, has a good reputation among the audience, and people have different interpretations of the film, but it is undeniable that this is also a story about encounters - people and people, spirit and flesh   . (Review of China Business News)
    In the film, Nagisa Oshima's questioning and criticism of Japan's political and social...
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    Movie quotes

    • [last lines]

      Sgt. Gengo Hara: Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence!

    • Group Capt. Hicksley: [about something Yonoi just said] What the hell's Gyo?

      Col. John Lawrence: Uh... It's a Japanese cure for laziness.

      Group Capt. Hicksley: Laziness! Jesus Christ, what makes he...

      Col. John Lawrence: Why don't you listen? He means *spiritual* laziness, and he believes that if he takes away the food and the water, then he also takes away the nourishment of laziness.

      Group Capt. Hicksley: You don't believe that bullshit, do you?

      Col. John Lawrence: I don't fucking know! Sir, I will tell you something that may surprise you! If *we* do it, *he'll* do it.

    • Maj. Jack Celliers: Lawrence... We're going walkies.

      Col. John Lawrence: Jack...

      Maj. Jack Celliers: Now listen, we're getting out of here. You're going over my shoulder.

      Col. John Lawrence: We can't, Jack. The tube line doesn't come out this far.

      Maj. Jack Celliers: It's okay. Everything's all right. Captain Yonoi gave me a Persian rug.