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Sep 19, 2016MICHAEL TAGGART MALONEY rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A human POW movie that crosses the usual line of brutish captors vs. saintly prisoners. This film was big in the early '80s when I was at the university. But I never saw it. That's why it was interesting to watch 30 years later. Though MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE was a British-Japanese production, it reminds me of those Australian films that were influential at the same time -- Bruce Beresford's BREAKER MORANT, Peter Weir's GALLIPOLI. These movies constituted a counterculture in the early '80s.