Filmed as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence starring David Bowie & Tom Conti. This is war as experienced in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java in 1942. It's the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break. Yet out of the terrible violence & hardship strange bonds of love & friendship are forged between the prisoners & their jailers.
Christmas Eve: A bar of shadow
Christmas morning: The morning after
A brother
The initiation
The growth of nothing
"The day far spent"
The sowing of the seed
Christmas night: The sword & the doll