Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Japanese: ), also known in many European editions as Furyo (俘虜, Japanese for "prisoner of war"), is a 1983 British-Japanese wartime drama film directed by Nagisa Oshima, produced by Jeremy Thomas and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano and Jack Thompson. The screenplay by Oshima with Paul Mayersberg was based on Sir Laurens van der Post's experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II as depicted in his works "The Seed and the Sower" (1963) and "The Night of the New Moon" (1970). Sakamoto also wrote
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film) the season 4 episode "Sleeping With the Enemy" of the television series "Northern Exposure", Ed Chigliak dubs the film into Tlingit (a Native American language). "The Prisoner of Benda" is the ninety-eighth episode of the animated television series "Futurama". During pre-production of "", director Nicholas Meyer asked costume designer Robert Fletcher to design new Starfleet uniforms inspired by the uniforms worn in "The Prisoner of Zenda". The resulting uniform costumes appeared in six "Star Trek" films in total, from "The Wrath of Khan" through "Star Trek Generations". The entire Potsdorf sequence in Blake Edwards' "The Great Race" (1965) is an