So NAGISA OSHIMA was another rebel to the ill cult - he would have to be - having made MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR LAWRENCE...

funny how it all turns out...in his late twenties...GILL had told us all at the CIA LAB that he had always identified with Ryūichi Sakamoto's role in this film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagisa_Oshima

1980s and 1990s

In 1983 Ōshima had a critical success with a film made partly in English, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which is set in a wartime prison camp, and features David Bowie and Ryūichi Sakamoto as examples of Western and Eastern military virtue. Max, Mon Amour (1986), written with Luis Buñuel's frequent collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière, was a comedy about a diplomat's wife (Charlotte Rampling) whose love affair with a chimpanzee is quietly incorporated into an eminently civilised ménage à trois.