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Lurid sadism blends with equally lurid lyricism in this first English-language film by leading Japanese director Nagisa Oshima. The setting is a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, where four main characters - a conciliatory British officer (Tom Conti), a brutal peasant guard (Takeshi Kitano), a beautiful, guilt-riddled English commando (David Bowie), and the equally beautiful Japanese commandant (Ryuuichi Sakamoto) - work out different responses to the savage conditions around them. The elliptical narrative centers on the unspoken erotic attraction between Sakamoto and Bowie, and Oshima appears to be treating ideas of elegantly transmogrified, purified emotions, yet the context and frequent incontinence of the execution bring the film uncomfortably close to the pseudophilosophical bondage fantasies of Yukio Mishima.

IMDb Link......: imdb.com/title/tt0085933/
 DVDBeaver Link.: dvdbeaver.com/FILM/DVDReviews7/merryx-masmerrychristmasmrlawrence.htm
 aka............: Senjou no Merii Kurisumasu

 Genre............: Drama / War
 Year.............: 1983
 Country..........: Japan
 Distributor......: Optimum
 Director.........: Nagisa Oshima 

 Source...........: R2 UK Retail DVD9
 DVD Format.......: PAL
 DVD Size.........: DVD5
 Run Time.........: 118 Minutes
 Programs used....: VobBlanker, ADC Rebuilder, PgcEdit, FixVTS

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 Aspect Ratio.....: 1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
 Frame Type.......: Interlaced
 Colorimetry......: BT.470-2
 Audio Language...: Japanese + English (mixed dialogue)
 Audio Format.....: DD 2.0
 Subtitles........: English (hardsubbed)

 Menu.............: [?] Edited
                     - Removed buttons to stripped content

 Video............: [?] Re-encoded [DVD-RB + Procoder2]
                     - Reduction Level for DVD-5: 88.6%
                     - Overall Bitrate : 4,936Kbs
                     - Space for Video : 4,273,014KB
                     - Analyzing VTS_01 for optimal CQ factor.
                     - CQ Value selected: 2.6
                     - Redistributing Final_CQ: 2.6
                     - HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 6,619/2,488/4,936 Kbs

 Extras...........: [?] Stripped

 Stripped.........: Piracy Nonsense, Production Logos, Trailers