Where was Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence filmed?
1983 film by Nagisa Ōshima
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) was filmed at 2 places in New Zealand and the Cook Islands: Auckland and Rarotonga. Every place comes from Wikidata.
Filming locations
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Towns & cities
Auckland
New Zealand
City on the North Island, New Zealand
“The boarding school sequence was shot on location at King's College, a private high school in Auckland, New Zealand.” Wikipedia
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Landscapes & nature
Rarotonga
Cook Islands
Island of the Cook Islands
Also per Wikipedia's Production section
Wikipedia’s Production section names 2 more places. Each links to the sentence that says so.
Places whose own article says it was shot there
1 place says on its own Wikipedia page that this film was shot there. Not on the map: the quote is linked so you can check it.
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Landscapes & nature
Rarotonga
Cook Islands
Island of the Cook Islands
“A number of feature-length films are linked to Rarotonga: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, depicting a Japanese POW camp for British prisoners in the island of Java in the year 1942, was filmed here, The Other Side of Heaven, which is set in Niuatoputapu, Tonga, but was filmed in part on Rarotonga, and Johnny Lingo which was set here.” Wikipedia
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