{"id":1462,"date":"2020-05-06T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T11:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2020-05-06T12:34:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T11:34:01","slug":"merry-christmas-mr-lawrence-coming-from-arrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=1462","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence coming from Arrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DB-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1463\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DB-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DB-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DB-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DB-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DB-1536x1010.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DB-2048x1347.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DB-456x300.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Bowie<\/strong> stars in <strong>Nagisa Oshima\u2019s 1983 Palme d\u2019Or-nominated\u00a0<\/strong>portrait of resilience, pride, friendship and obsession among four very different men confined in the stifling jungle heat of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java during World War II. Produced by Jeremy Thomas (<em>The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky<\/em>), it was the first English-language film by Oshima (<em>Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses, Gohatto<\/em>), a leading light of Japanese New Wave cinema, and provided breakthrough big-screen roles for comedian Takeshi Kitano and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also composed the film\u2019s <strong>hauntingly memorable BAFTA-winning score<\/strong>. This powerful wartime drama was adapted from Laurens van der Post\u2019s autobiographical novel \u2018<em>The Seed and the Sower<\/em>\u2019 (1963) by screenwriter Paul Mayersberg (<em>The Man Who Fell To Earth<\/em>).<!--more-->In 1942, British officer Major Jack Celliers (Bowie) is captured by Japanese soldiers, and after a brutal trial sent, physically debilitated but indomitable in mind, to a POW camp overseen by the zealous Captain Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto).\u00a0 Celliers\u2019 stubbornness sees him locked in a battle of wills with the camp\u2019s new commandant, a man obsessed with discipline and the glory of Imperial Japan who becomes unnaturally preoccupied with the young Major, while Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence (Tom Conti), the only inmate with a degree of sympathy for Japanese culture and an understanding of the language, attempts to bridge the divide through his friendship with Yonoi\u2019s second-in-command, Sergeant Hara (Takeshi Kitano), a man possessing a surprising degree of compassion beneath his cruel fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Bowie stars in Nagisa Oshima\u2019s 1983 Palme d\u2019Or-nominated\u00a0portrait of resilience, pride, friendship and obsession among four very different men confined in the stifling jungle heat of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java during World War II. Produced by Jeremy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=1462\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}