june, 2023
Event Details
During World War II, British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) is captured by Japanese forces and held in a prison camp by the honor-bound Capt. Yanoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). Yanoi and
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Event Details
During World War II, British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) is captured by Japanese forces and held in a prison camp by the honor-bound Capt. Yanoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). Yanoi and gruff Sgt. Hara (Takeshi Kitano) become intrigued with Celliers’ open defiance in the face of their staunchly old-world ideas about cowardice and shame. Meanwhile, a translator, Lt. Col. John Lawrence (Tom Conti), attempts to find common ground between British and Japanese beliefs. Based on Laurens van der Post’s “The Seed and the Sower”, Nagisa Oshima’s MERRY CHRISTMAS MR :LAWRENCE (1983, 124 min) is an involving, almost unbearably moving and incredibly humane film, as well as an affecting, strange, often beautiful experience about finding common ground in the most unlikely of places.
Free Entrance. English subs.
Time
(Sunday) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm