戰場上的快樂聖誕

A twist on the World War II prisoner of war films that continue to haunt popular imagination (e.g. 2014’s The Railway Man). Here, the actions of politics and war are intertwined uncomfortably yet masterfully with questions of guilt, honor and homoeroticism that supercharge events of life and death across cultures. With powerful and evocative performances among those who lead the British soldiers –both the enigmatic David Bowie and Tom Conti as a more acculturated officer –and Sakamoto Ryuichi and Kitano Takeshi as Japanese officers whose stories do not end with the tragic denouement of camp lives.