Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
Nagisa Ōshima
Casts & Crew
David Bowie
Tom Conti
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Takeshi Kitano
Jack Thompson
Johnny Okura
Alistair Browning
James Malcolm
Chris Broun
Yūya Uchida
Ryūnosuke Kaneda
Takashi Naitō
Tamio Ishikura
Rokkō Toura
Kan Mikami
Yūji Honma
Daisuke Iijima
Hideo Murota
Barry Dorking
Geoff Clendon
Grant Bridger
Richard Adams
Geoff Allen
Michael Baxter-Lax
Mark Berg
Marcus Campbell
Colin Francis
Richard Hensby
Richard Hoare
Martin Ibbertson
Rob Jayne
Richard Mills
Mark Penrose
Arthur Ranford
Steve Smith
Stephen Taylor
Richard Zimmerman
Ian Miller
Don Stevens
Yōichi Iijima
Satoshi Itō
Masaki Kusakabe
Kunihide Kuruma
Hiroshi Mikami
Akihiro Masuda
Tokuhisa Masuda
Takeshi Nagasawa
Takashi Odashima
Masanori Okada
Shoetsu Sato
Rintaro Shibata
Masamichi Shibasaki
Kaname Shimura
Kenzo Shirahama
Hisao Takeda
Hidenobu Togo
Atsuo Yamashita
Heiwa Yoshihara
Takeshi Yū
Also Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
A documentary on the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima.
In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and another, younger boy. The adults pretend to be injured by autos in crowded traffic, blackmailing the fearful motorists with threats to call in the police.
A French wife takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
Watashi-wa beretto is a promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima.
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in one libidinous rush—fully expecting to be tracked down and killed.
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.