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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Senjou no Merii Kurisumasu) is a 1983 movie directed by Nagisa Oshima, produced by Jeremy Thomas and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Takeshi Kitano. It was written by Oshima and Paul Mayersberg and based on World War II experiences as a prisoner of war of the writer Laurens van der Post as told in his works The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970). Actor Ryuichi Sakamoto also wrote the musical score.

The film deals with the relationships among four men in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War - Jack Celliers (Bowie), a rebellious prisoner with a guilty secret; Captain Yonoi (Sakamoto), the young camp commandant; John Lawrence (Conti), a British officer who has lived in Japan and speaks Japanese fluently; and Sergeant Hara (Kitano), with whom Lawrence develops a peculiar friendship.

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