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British army officer Jack Celliers is sentenced to a Japanese P.O.W. camp in Java where he engages in a private war of wills with the camp's commander and a belligerent sergeant. Despite the gruesome setting, Celliers and his fellow prisoner John Lawrence come to understand and respect the spe...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Recorded Picture Company, Zenkoku Asahi Hōsō Kabushiki Kaisha, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932-2013 (Screenwriter, Director), Thomas, Jeremy (Producer), Mayersberg, Paul (Screenwriter), Conti, Tom (Actor), Bowie, David (Actor), Sakamoto, Ryūichi, 1952- (Actor), Bīto Takeshi (Actor), Thompson, Jack, 1940- (Actor), Van der Post, Laurens
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Japanese
Language Notes:English and Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2010]
Series:Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 535.
Subjects:
Van der Post, Laurens > Film adaptations.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese > Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Indonesia > Java > Drama.
Prisoners of war > Great Britain > Drama.
Prisoners of war > Indonesia > Java > Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Japan > Drama.
Prisoners of war > England > Drama.
War films.
Biographical films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, British.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Feature films > Great Britain.
Feature films > Japan.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Evans: Media and Reserves (Annex 1st floor)

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Call Number: PN1997 .M3649 2010
 
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