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The guards catch him and find a smuggled radio during the subsequent investigation, forcing him and Lawrence to take the blame.

When the inmates are made to fast as punishment for insubordination during the forced seppuku of a guard (Okura), Celliers sneaks in food. Sensing a kindred spirit in Celliers, Yonoi's fascination grows into a romantic obsession: he treats him specially, watches him sleep, and repeatedly asks Hara about him in private. After the trial, Yonoi confides with Lawrence that he is haunted with shame due to his absence during the February 26 Incident, believing he should've died alongside the rebels and implying that his focus on honor stems from this. Summoned to the military trial of the recently-captured Major Jack Celliers (Bowie), Yonoi is fascinated by his resilience and has him interred at the camp. Gengo Hara (Kitano), but remains at odds with the rest of the staff. Hicksley (Thompson), who repeatedly resists Yonoi's attempts to find weapons experts among the prisoners for the Japanese army's interests. John Lawrence (Conti), the only inmate fluent in Japanese, and the abrasive spokesman Gp. A strict adherent to the bushido code, his only sources of connection to the prisoners lie in the empathetic Lt. In 1942, Captain Yonoi (Sakamoto) is the commander of a POW camp in Japanese-occupied Java. Sakamoto's score won the film a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. The film was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival in competition for the Palme d'Or. Sakamoto also wrote the score and the vocal theme ' Forbidden Colours', which features David Sylvian. The film is based on Sir Laurens van der Post's experiences as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in World War II as depicted in his books The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970). It stars David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano and Jack Thompson. It was directed by Nagisa Ōshima, written by Ōshima and Paul Mayersberg, and produced by Jeremy Thomas. Lawrence ( Japanese: 戦場のメリークリスマス, Hepburn: Senjō no Merī Kurisumasu, 'Merry Christmas on the Battlefield'), also known in many European editions as Furyo ( 俘虜, Japanese for 'prisoner of war'), is a 1983 Japanese-British war film.

Merry christmas mr.lawrence ryuichi sakamoto