We were proud to be asked by our friends at Arrow Video to craft a new trailer for the classic film. Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence for its restored release on the Arrow Academy label. We worked hard to give the trailer a fresh take, but with a classic feel, and were lucky to be given permission by Ryuichi Sakamoto to use his score in our new 5.1 mix and have the edit signed off by the film’s producer Jeremy Thomas.
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 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).
The trailer was premiered on The Hollywood News site.
https://bit.ly/2C2kSDx
The Third Murder
Theatrical trailer re-brand for the UK Arrow Films release on the Arrow Academy label.
Social Media Assets commissioned by Arrow Films. In UK Cinemas March 23rd.
Hirokazu Kore-eda weaves a tale of murder and mystery in THE THIRD MURDER – In select UK cinemas from next Friday pic.twitter.com/5gVQNxTeBf
— Arrow Films (@ArrowFilms) March 16, 2018
Hirokazu Kore-eda's complex legal drama The Third Murder was the big winner at the 41st Japan Academy Prize, taking best picture, director, supporting actor, supporting actress, editing and screenplay. See it TODAY @aaccinema @aberystwytharts 5.30pm pic.twitter.com/c264VGMzGU
— Wales One World Film (@WOWFilm) March 17, 2018
Hirokazu Kore-eda weaves a tale of murder and mystery in THE THIRD MURDER – In select UK cinemas from Friday pic.twitter.com/wIVkQyHPhn
— Arrow Academy (@Academy_Arrow) March 18, 2018
Hirokazu Kore-eda weaves a tale of murder and mystery in THE THIRD MURDER – In select UK cinemas from Friday pic.twitter.com/wIVkQyHPhn
— Arrow Academy (@Academy_Arrow) March 18, 2018
The Untamed
UK Trailer Re-version for Arrow Academy.
In UK Cinemas August 18 and on DVD and Blu-ray from September 25 2017
Arrow Academy
Arrow Academy are expanding into the US and Canada and commissioned this showreel to present their new releases and restorations.
Cosmos
Great to see Cosmos in Little White Lies top 25 films of 2016
“Not by any means for the faint of heart, Cosmos is nonetheless a juddering cloudburst of pure visual and aural energy, a rare instance of deep intellectual enquiry buoyed by unexpected jolts of pulsing emotion.”
It was a great trailer to make for a great film, released theatrically by Arrow Films / Arrow Academy.
Arrow Academy 2017 US Launch Sizzle
GVFilm worked closely with the client ‘Arrow Academy’ to craft this launch video for the label’s first steps into the US market.