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For a film adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by a writer who lived an incredibly storied life - and adapted by a near thirty-year veteran director, at that - Nagisa Oshima's famous Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence doesn't seem to reflect...

Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), which is based on an autobiographical novel by the South African adventurer-soldier Laurens van der Post, is a homo-erotic culture clash set in a World War 2 internment camp. This film's international rock-star casting and multi-lingual...