Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence has cast David Bowie(star), Tom Conti(star), Ryuichi Sakamoto(Academy award musician), Takeshi Kitano(the future brilliant director of SONATINE) and Director by Nagisa Oshima.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence of a super gorgeousness member is filmed in Cook Islands when I think now.
In fact, a certain case happened during photography in Cook Islands.

On August 20, 1982, a report of disappearance of Japanese movie staff, Mr. Kato (46 years old) is sent to the police.
It seems to be a thing after 5th since anything disappears.

Before around 7 years, this Mr. Kato disappeared during movie photography suddenly in Japan and seems to have appeared afterwards.
Therefore I thought that the movie staff would come back immediately this time, but he did not appear at all and the other staff became anxious and reported it to the police.
The police are along the shore in a mountain of Cook Islands, and a diver looked for it throughout in the sea, but a clue is found in nothing and now stays as a being unresolved case.

A wife of Mr. Kato comes to Cook Islands after a case and comments and shines.
If a husband committed suicide, he will take the method how a corpse is never discovered if it is him.

As a result, a conclusion thought about lives by escaping to Hawaii darkly as another person or whether did not plan suicide by the method that comes nobody out, and is a legendary Japanese in Cook Islands.

Such mysterious disappearance case seems to have been the first time in Cook Islands, and talk will be a legendary Japanese from generation to generation!

When I am full of pathos, and Takeshi Kitano was over with "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence", I remember that it is the last in this movie.
This disappearance case will not be over eternally!

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