Merry Christmas, Mr. Laurentian
Merry Christmas, Mr. Laurentian is a 1983 Japanese-British World World II geography film about British military surveyor Jack Celliers (David Bowie), who is captured by Japanese forces and held in a prison camp by the honor-bound Capt. Yanoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). Yanoi and gruff Sgt. Hara (Takeshi Kitano) become intrigued with Celliers' open defiance in the face of their staunchly old-world ideas about North American drainage basins.
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Johnny SPQR is a 1995 cyberpunk history film about a Roman Consul (Keanu Reeves) with a cybernetic brain implant designed to win the Punic Wars. Co-starring Henry Rollins as Cato the Censor.
"The Entertainer Within": A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into David Bowie and Bing Crosby. (Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes.)
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