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The story takes place on a film set in Java at a Japanese POW camp in 1942. It is about a complex relationship between a rebellious prisoner, David Bowie and camp commandant Ryuichi Sakomoto who is obsessed by Bowie's attitude.

Genre:

War, Drama

Actors:

David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson, Johnny Ohkura, Alistair Browning, James Malcolm, Chris Broun, Yûya Uchida, Ryûnosuke Kaneda, ...»

Director:

Nagisa Ôshima

Country:

United Kingdom

Release:

1983

IMDb:

7.2

Quality:

Duration:

123 min

Time Out

For all the praise heaped upon Oshima's admittedly ambitious film about East-West relations in the microcosm of a Japanese PoW camp during World War II, it's far less satisfactory than most of his earlier work.

June 24, 2006

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Spirituality and Practice

A compelling cross-cultural study of friendship and bravery

July 23, 2003

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Q Network Film Desk

The film’s attention is split fairly evenly across the major characters, and their interactions are consistently fascinating in the way they illustrate both the cultural divide and the halting attempts to somehow bridge it.

October 12, 2010

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Village Voice

From Oshima's later career... most notable is this bilingual, end-of-WWII tearjerker about forgiveness and understanding between cultures, which could have been dubbed The Man Who Fell to Java.

October 02, 2008

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TV Guide

Fine performances by Conti, Takeshi (brilliant in his first dramatic role), Sakamoto (a Japanese pop star in his film acting debut who also contributed the memorable score), and Bowie enhance this provocative film.

July 30, 2003

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Chicago Reader

The context and frequent incontinence of the execution bring the film uncomfortably close to the pseudophilosophical bondage fantasies of Yukio Mishima.

January 01, 2000

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Urban Cinefile

David Bowie is outstanding as the defiant British prisoner whose erotic appeal undoes the Japanese commandant, played by Sakamoto, who was at the height of his fame as a musical icon in Japan

May 01, 2008

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Chicago Sun-Times

Here's a movie that is even stranger than it was intended to be.

October 23, 2004

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New York Times

Mr. Oshima has staged the film in a spacious tropical setting and filled it with a great number of extras. Even so, Mr. Bowie always stands out from the crowd.

August 30, 2004

Film4

A memorable story of understanding across cultures.

May 24, 2003

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Combustible Celluloid

It's relentlessly grim, constantly off-balance, occasionally moving, and often striking.

October 01, 2010

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TIME Magazine

The Merry Christmas catalogue of atrocities finally becomes numbing, even ludicrous.

December 10, 2008

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