Television and Radio

Source: https://collections.library.auckland.ac.nz/tv-radio/title/DT_380640 Parent: https://www.news.library.auckland.ac.nz/2022/12/19/not-so-festive-festive-films/

Primary Title

• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Date Broadcast

• Sunday 24 April 2011

Release Year

• 1983

Start Time

• 20 : 30

Finish Time

• 22 : 30

Duration

• 120:00

Channel

• Maori Television

Broadcaster

• Maori Television Service

Programme Description

• Set in a Japanese POW Camp on Java. All cruelty and bitter misery of camp life exists but there is a curious bond created between the Japanese and their Western prisoners. Based on the novel The seed and the sower by Sir Laurens Van der Post.

Classification

• AO

Owning Collection

• Television Vault

Broadcast Platform

• Television

Languages

• English
• Japanese

Captioning Languages

• English

Captions

• Open Captions

Live Broadcast

• No

Rights Statement

• Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.

Subjects

• War films
• World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese--Drama.
• Feature films--Great Britain.

Contributors

• Nagisa Ôshima (Director)
• Nagisa Ôshima (Writer)
• Paul Mayersberg (Writer)
• Jeremy Thomas (Producer)
• David Bowie (Actor)
• Ryûichi Sakamoto (Actor)
• Tom Conti (Actor)
• Takeshi Kitano (Actor)
• Jack Thompson (Actor)
• Ryûichi Sakamoto (Composer)
• Tôichirô Narushima (Cinematographer)
• National Film Trustees (Production Unit)
• Recorded Picture Company (Production Unit)
• Oshima Productions (Production Unit)
• Jeremy Thomas Productions (Production Unit)
• Tomoyo Oshima (Editor)
• Shigemasa Toda (Production Designer)