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              Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 15 rating

              An unflinching study of brutality and resistance, fear and desire in a Japanese WWII POW camp, directed with verve by Oshima.

              War 1983 123 mins

              Director: Nagisa Oshima

              CC

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              Bowie and Sakamoto (another musician-turned-actor) play strangely bonded antagonists in this study of brutalisation and repressed desire in a Japanese POW camp.

              Bowie’s dyed blonde hair crowns a visage shaded by rockstar excess and sexual ambiguity as Major Celliers, a man haunted by his past who’ll risk everything to defy his captor, Captain Yonoi. Electrifying scenes between the two leads, under Oshima’s spare direction, are boldly underlined by Sakamoto’s powerful score.

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