Competition: Win Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence on Blu-ray

To celebrate the release of Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence – available on limited edition Blu-ray from 15^th June from Arrow Academy – The Upcoming has a copy up for grabs!

David Bowie stars in Nagisa Oshima’s 1983 Palme d’Or-nominated portrait of resilience, pride, friendship and obsession among four very different men confined in the stifling jungle heat of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java during World War II.

Produced by Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky), it was the first English-language film by Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses, Gohatto), a leading light of Japanese New Wave cinema, and provided breakthrough big-screen roles for comedian and director Takeshi Kitano and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also composed the film’s hauntingly memorable BAFTA-winning score. This powerful wartime drama was adapted from Laurens van der Post’s autobiographical novel The Seed and the Sower (1963) by screenwriter Paul Mayersberg (The Man Who Fell to Earth).

You can order a copy of Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence on Blu-ray at Arrow Films’s website here.

For a chance to win a Blu-ray copy of Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence take a minute to answer the question below, follow us on our food Instagram here and send your answer to competitions@theupcoming.co.uk together with your full name, address, mobile number and Instagram handle by Sunday 5^th July 2020 at 11.59pm. We will cross check your name in the list of Instagram followers.

What novel by Laurens van der Post was adapted into Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence?

a) The Man Who Fell to Earth
b) The Seed and the Sower
c) The Sheltering Sky

A second entry will be allowed if you subscribe to our mailing list here.

Terms & conditions:

• Closing date is Sunday 5^th July 2020 at 11.59pm.
• This promotion is open to UK residents only.
• The prize is 1 x Blu-ray copy of Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.
• One winner will be chosen and contacted on Wednesday 8^th July 2020 at 11.00am.
• Winning attendees must be aged 15 or over.
• The editor’s decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
• Your name, address and mobile number will be used exclusively in connection with the competition according to our privacy policy.