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1983 OUT 15 JUNE BD EXTRAS Documentaries, Featurettes, Booklet

In’83, a Christmas-infused WW2 heartbreaker seemed weird for Japanese New Wave radical Nagisa Oshima. Yet it’s in the fertile clash of contrasting ingredients that the Ai No Corrida director seasoned the genre flavours of his English-language debut. Based on Laurens van der Post’s novel The Seed And The Sower, Mr. Lawrence weathers well.

In his ‘Let’s Dance’ pomp, David Bowie radiates charisma as Jack Celliers, a defiant POW who excites the interest of testy prison-camp captain Yonoi (Japanese pop star Ryuichi Sakamoto). Offsetting the psychosexual steam between the pop pin-ups, Tom