Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um coronel britânico tenta superar as diferenças culturais entre um prisioneiro de guerra britânico e um comandante japonês para evitar o derramamento de sa... Ler tudoDurante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um coronel britânico tenta superar as diferenças culturais entre um prisioneiro de guerra britânico e um comandante japonês para evitar o derramamento de sangue.Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um coronel britânico tenta superar as diferenças culturais entre um prisioneiro de guerra britânico e um comandante japonês para evitar o derramamento de sangue.
- Ganhou 1 prêmio BAFTA
- 10 vitórias e 8 indicações no total
- Hara
- (as Takeshi)
- Kanemoto
- (as Johnny Ohkura)
- Commandant of Military Prison
- (as Yuya Uchida)
- President of the Court
- (as Ryunosuke Kaneda)
- Lieutenant Iwata
- (as Takashi Naito)
- Interpreter
- (as Rokko Toura)
- PFC Yajima
- (as Yuji Honma)
- Direção
- Roteiristas
- Elenco e equipe completos
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- CuriosidadesAccording to David Bowie, Nagisa Ôshima directed the Japanese actors with great detail. But when it came to the British actors, they were told to "do whatever it is you people do".
- Erros de gravaçãoIn the final scene in the prison cell, the cross belt of Lt Col Lawrence's Sam Browne is fitted back to front.
- Citações
Col. John Lawrence: You are the victim of men who think they are right... Just as one day you and captain Yonoi believed absolutely that you were right. And the truth is of course that nobody is right...
- ConexõesFeatured in David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto: Forbidden Colours (1983)
- Trilhas sonorasRide, Ride, Ride (Celliers' Brother's Song)
Composed by Stephen McCurdy
The story is completely about perspectives and motives: power-madness and despair. Some might find MCML hard to stomach while watching, some afterwards. But I say you have to watch it through to appreciate the concepts fully. Moreover, I say you shouldn't vote it before you've seen all of it; that way the rating wouldn't be as low as 6.9. MCML is one of those films that surpass movies like 'Platoon' (Stone, 1986) on any level. Added to all that, it's also beautifully shot by cinematographer Toichiro Naroshima (Double Suicide).
One of the best scores in history of cinema by Ryuichi Sakamoto (also 'Wild Palms' and 'Sheltering Sky'), who not only provides it with his strokes of musical genius, but also plays an important role: the androgynous and curious captain in contrast to the virility of Takeshi Kitano (dir and acted Violent Cop, Brother, Hana Bi) the self-confident and straight-forward sergeant. If you've seen any of Kitano's movies, his character in MCML will gain from that. I guess director Nagisa Oshima (Naked Youth, Gohatto) likes to play with feminine and masculine characters. David Bowie fits in brilliantly from that perspective. His character is the most complex and worked out the deepest. My opinion is that this is his best and most intriguing role so far ('the Man who fell to earth' came close). Conti ('If we'll do it, he'll do it') plays a key figure between the Japanese and the POW.
On which side to lose a war? When to intimidate and when to be intimidated?
Which side are you on anyway? 'There are times victory is very hard to take' - Colonel John Lawrence. Not without reason sergeant Gengo Hara says 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' not: 'Merry Christmas Colonel Lawrence'. Are you intimidated by an initiation? Or still not when you're POW and the only free part of your body is your head? These are questions the film raises. Unfortunately I can't compare the film to the book, because I haven't read it. MCML is immensely powerful, and really underrated. 10/10
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- 24 de dez. de 2001
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- Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
- Locações de filme
- Rarotonga, Ilhas Cook(prisoners camp in Java)
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Bilheteria
- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 2.306.560
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 99.221
- 28 de ago. de 1983
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 2.376.612
- Tempo de duração2 horas 3 minutos
- Cor
- Mixagem de som
- Proporção
- 1.85 : 1