Where was Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence filmed?

Filming locations

• 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

• Landscapes & nature Rarotonga Cook Islands Island of the Cook Islands

Also per Wikipedia's Production section

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Places whose own article says it was shot there

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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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