Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Page #2

I'm sorry.

I was just now riding on top of

Marlene Dietrich's tummy.

In a hideway in Manchuria!

I must talk to you.

Why's he here?

I want you to protect him.

Why?

My men heard about him.

- I told you not to talk!

- I didn't.

There were japanese soldiers

and korean guards there.

You accuse japanese...?

It was probably the guards.

Don't you realize that everyone

is going to know?

I understood.

Will all your men want to

bugger him now?

Is it true that english men

are all homosexuals?

Don't be stupid.

Listen I need your help.

A japanese never asks help

from an enemy.

Hey, are you a homosexual?

He says you are a homosexual.

Are you?

No sir. I am not.

He's not.

You all fear homosexuality!

A samurai doesn't fear it.

Wars create friendships amongst men.

That hardly means that all

soldiers become homosexual.

You are not soldiers,

you are prisioners!

So you lack discipline,

and you beg favours.

- Shame!

- Sergeant Hara...

I've nothing to be ashamed of.

A new prisioner has arrived.

Another queer's here!

I've brought a prisioner from

military prison, Batavia.

I'm sergeant Gengo Hara.

I'll take over.

Your name and rank?

Celliers, Jack. Major,

British Army.

Celliers? Jack Celliers?

Straffer Jack?

Good morning, Colonel.

You bastard!

Stop it!

No! Stop it! Stop it!

You! Officer! Do you

know this man?

We served together in Libya.

We fought the Germans.

Take him to the sick bay.

What kind of a man is he?

Is he a close friend of yours?

No. He's not a close friend, no.

- What kind of a soldier is he?

- He's a fine soldier.

We had a nickname for him

in the 8th Army.

We called him straffer Jack.

Straffer is a kind of um...

it's very difficult to translate.

Straffer is um...

This is astonishingly difficult sometimes.

In any case,

he was a soldier's soldier.

Why are you so

interested in him?

- What did the doctor say?

- I din't talk to the doctor.

You fool!

Lawrecen, I want him in good

health as quickly as possible.

That's an order!

You don't have to order me

to look after a sick man.

I will send the japanese

medic to see him.

Why are you so concerned

about Major Celliers?

Send our medic.

- The commandig officer, sir.

- Let him in.

You spend more time with these

Japs than you do with...

your own men.

I called Colonel Lawrence here.

Now from you...

I want the names of all

prisoners who are informed...

on the subject of armaments

and ammunition.

Who are the experts here?

I am not required under

International Law...

to furnish the enemy with

any information.

This is not North Africa.

We are not Germans!

There is no Geneva Convention here.

If you do not follow my orders,

I will have to replace you.

Replace me?

What are you talking about?

Replace me with whom?

Do you know what

he's talking about?

No sir. I don't know.

You promised to improve our food ration.

You eat the same as we eat.

Give me the names of your experts.

No, Captain Yonoi.

I will not.

Captain Yonoi. Please try to understand.

Group Captain Hicksley

is an honourable man.

"They are all, all honourable men."

As commanding officer, I prefer

another honourable man.

Lawrence, this armaments thing.

I think we can string it out

for quite sometime, don't you?

I mean, young Tojo will never

notice the difference.

They're not fool, you know,

sir, the japanese.

They know how badly the war's

going for them.

A couple months, it could

all be over.

Then why not try and stay alive

for a couple of months?

Sir, I know these people...

I wish you'de be guided by my knowledge.

I know these people, too.

They're the enemy.

And you're a British soldier.

You know they once beat the Russians.

Really? What school did you go to?

Winchester.

Who's looking after Major Celliers?

- I am, sir.

- How's he coming along?

He's a tough man.

Anyone else would have been dead

When will he be up and

about do you think?

Christ, I had to give him a sedative,

so he'll sleep...

most of the time. I'd saya

couple of weeks.

- Good. Where's the big chief?

- I'll get him for you.

All right you malingerers.

Now hear this!

Colonel Lawrence is going to

stay here for a few nights.

- He's one of those, mate!

- Want my boxing gloves?

- Where is he?

- Sleeping.

Take me.

Why was he captured?

He wasn't.

He surrendered.

Why does Capt. Yonoi want to

make him commanding officer?

- I don't know.

- Answer me Lawrence...

Because he's a born leader.

Why are you still alive?

I'd admire you more if

you killed yourself.

A good officer like you!

How can you stand the shame?

We don't call it shame.

Being a prisioner is one of

the fortunes of war.

We surely aren't happy being prisoners.

We want to escape.

We want to fight you.

That's just quibbling.

No! We want to win.

This camp isn't the end.

We won't kill ourselves.

It's the coward's way out.

You're just scared of dying!

Don't wake the patients.

When I was 12,

I visited the shrine in my village.

I offered my life to the Emperor.

I have already died for my country.

Yes. But you're not dead are you?

It's all right, Jack.

It's Lawrence.

It's all right. You're fine.

It's all right.

Sergeant Hara isn't going to hurt you.

Sergeant Hara isn't going to hurt anyone.

What on earth possessed Yonoi

to save me do you think?

I don't know.

What did he say, Lawrence?

What a fynny face!

Beautiful eyes, though.

All right?

What's that bloody noise!

What's the matter with them?

They're trying to become

super human gods.

They live in the past,

these fellows.

God help them, Lawrence.

And that's our Captain Yonoi's voice,

isn't it?

He's been screaming

his head off...

ever since you got here.

If he's got something

on his mind...

why doesn't he come out with it?

I rather think he is.

Perhaps we're both on the same ladder.

Are you okay?

It was a nightmare.

Ueki is worried about these

training sessions...

that they are too violent.

Sir, your shouts make the prisioners uneasy.

Lawrence has come to me.

- Lawrence is here?

- Outside.

Is it true that our shouts

disturb the prisoners?

Yes, yes, sir. It is.

And you? Do you feel uneasy?

Well, I find the noise irritating,

but irt doesn't make me uneasy.

However, some of the sick men...

- That sick officer, too?

- Major Celliers? Yes.

I do not want the prisoners

to become upset.

Thank you, Captain Yonoi.

How wonderful it would have been...

if we could have invited all of you...

to a gathering under our cherry trees.

Yes.

My fondest memory of

Japan is the snow.

The trees covered with snow.

- It was snowing on that day.

- What day?

Don't you know?

February 26, 1936.

Yes... yes.

I was in Tokyo that day.

You too?

No. I had been sent off to

Manchuria 3 months before.

I was not there

for the uprising.

You regret that?

My comrades were executed.

I was left to die after them.

I see. So you were one of the

shining young officers...

And bring that sick officer Lawrence.

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