Watch Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Movie Online Streaming No Downloading. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence was the first English-language project of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses). In tune with his previous filmic essays on racism and brutality, Merry Christmas concentrates on a war of wills between rebellious POW David Bowie and camp commandant Ryuichi Sakomoto. Assuming that his other prisoners' unwillingness to protest their cruel treatment is a sign of weakness, Sakomoto is most impressed by Bowie's enigmatic defiance. While Bowie and Sakomoto seem to be operating on a high spiritual and intellectual plane, bilingual prisoner Tom Conti (the "Mr. Lawrence" of the title) engages in a more standard adversarial relationship with sadistic sergeant Takeshi Kitano. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi. If you like this Movie you can watch this movie HEREMovie Release Date Aug 26, 1983 Wide
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David Bowie,Tom Conti,Ryuichi Sakamoto,Jack Thompson,Johnny Okura,Alistair Browning,James Malcolm,Yuya Uchida,Ryunosuke Kaneda,Taketoshi Naito,Tamio Ishikura,Chris Broun,Rob Jayne,Hideo Murota,Takeshi Kitano,Richard Mills,Rokko Toura,Christopher Brown,Richard AdamsGenres Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence : Drama
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User Rating Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence : 3.8User Percentage For Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence : 80 %
User Count Like for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence : 6,116
All Critics Rating For Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence : 6.2
All Critics Count For Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence : 19
All Critics Percentage For Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence : 79 %
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The Merry Christmas catalogue of atrocities finally becomes numbing, even ludicrous.Richard Corliss-TIME Magazine
From Oshima's later career... most notable is this bilingual, end-of-WWII tearjerker about forgiveness and understanding between cultures, which could have been dubbed The Man Who Fell to Java.
Aaron Hillis-Village Voice
Here's a movie that is even stranger than it was intended to be.
Roger Ebert-Chicago Sun-Times
Mr. Oshima has staged the film in a spacious tropical setting and filled it with a great number of extras. Even so, Mr. Bowie always stands out from the crowd.
Janet Maslin-New York Times
The context and frequent incontinence of the execution bring the film uncomfortably close to the pseudophilosophical bondage fantasies of Yukio Mishima.
Dave Kehr-Chicago Reader
The film?s attention is split fairly evenly across the major characters, and their interactions are consistently fascinating in the way they illustrate both the cultural divide and the halting attempts to somehow bridge it.
James Kendrick-Q Network Film Desk
It's relentlessly grim, constantly off-balance, occasionally moving, and often striking.
Jeffrey M. Anderson-Combustible Celluloid
An exhaustive double-disc that suggests the unique circumstances of a production can make for a more compelling tale than the resulting film.
Bill Weber-Slant Magazine
David Bowie is outstanding as the defiant British prisoner whose erotic appeal undoes the Japanese commandant, played by Sakamoto, who was at the height of his fame as a musical icon in Japan
Urban Cinefile Critics-Urban Cinefile
For all the praise heaped upon Oshima's admittedly ambitious film about East-West relations in the microcosm of a Japanese PoW camp during World War II, it's far less satisfactory than most of his earlier work.
Geoff Andrew-Time Out
Fine performances by Conti, Takeshi (brilliant in his first dramatic role), Sakamoto (a Japanese pop star in his film acting debut who also contributed the memorable score), and Bowie enhance this provocative film.
-TV Guide's Movie Guide
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