Laurens van der Post (1963) and "The Night of the New Moon" (1970). Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima based his film "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" (1982) on the last two of these books. Following the surrender of Japan, while his fellow POWs were repatriated, van der Post chose to remain in Java, and on 15 September 1945, he joined Admiral Wilfrid Patterson on HMS "Cumberland" for the official surrender of the Japanese in Java to British forces representing the Allies. Van der Post then spent two years helping to mediate between Indonesian nationalists and members of the Dutch Colonial Government. He had gained trust
The Hook (1963 film) tense, dramatic note and manages to keep the pitch for the story's 94 minutes," adding, "I was especially impressed with the mute performance of the Philippine actor, Enrique Magalona, as the prisoner. This is a memorable, creative portrait." "The Monthly Film Bulletin" found the script "technically excellent," but thought it was the "smug, unimpassioned way" in which the ethical theme was "grafted onto the stock story of another of Hollywood's neurotic bullies that faults the whole film." The Hook (1963 film) The Hook is a 1963 Korean War war film directed by George Seaton based on the 1957 novel "L'Hamecon"