Information: - David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, releasing eleven number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. - Early life. After graduating from Kyoto University, where he studied political history, Oshima was hired by film production company Shochiku Ltd. and quickly progressed to directing his own movies, making his debut feature "A Town of Love and Hope" in 1959. - Bernardo Bertolucci (born 16 March 1940) is an Italian director and screenwriter, whose films include "The Conformist", "Last Tango in Paris", "1900", "The Last Emperor", "The Sheltering Sky", "Stealing Beauty" and "The Dreamers". In recognition of his work, he was presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or Award at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Since 1979, he has been married to screenwriter Clare Peploe. - Recorded Picture Company is a British film production company founded in 1974 by producer Jeremy Thomas. - Jeremy Jack Thomas, CBE (born 26 July 1949) is a British film producer, founder and chairman of Recorded Picture Company. He produced Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor", which won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006 he received a European Film Award for Outstanding European Achievement in World Cinema. His father was director Ralph Thomas (director of many of the "Doctor" films), while his uncle Gerald Thomas directed all of the films in the Carry on franchise. - He concurrently pursued a solo career, releasing the experimental electronic fusion album "Thousand Knives" (1978), and later released the pioneering album "B-2 Unit" (1980), from which "Riot in Lagos" influenced the development of electro and hip hop music. He went on to produce more solo records, collaborate with many international artists, and pursue a wide variety of projects, in different genres ranging from electronic to classical and world music. He composed music for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics opening ceremony, and his composition "Energy Flow" (1999) was the first instrumental number-one single in Japan's Oricon charts history. - Merry Christmas , Mr. Lawrence ( Japanese : Senj no Mer Kurisumasu ( , '' Merry Christmas on the Battlefield '' ) , also known in many European editions as Furyo ( , Japanese for '' prisoner of war '' ) , is a 1983 British - Japanese drama film directed by Nagisa Oshima , produced by Jeremy Thomas and starring David Bowie , Tom Conti , Ryuichi Sakamoto , Takeshi Kitano and Jack Thompson . The screenplay by Oshima with Paul Mayersberg was based on Sir Laurens van der Post 's experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II as depicted in his works The Seed and the Sower ( 1963 ) and The Night of the New Moon ( 1970 ) . Sakamoto also wrote the score and the vocal theme '' Forbidden Colours '' , featuring David Sylvian . The film was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival in competition for the Palme d'Or . Sakamoto 's score also won the film a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music . - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was established on April 20, 1983, by Atlantic Records founder and chairman Ahmet Ertegun to recognize and archive the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll. In 1986, Cleveland was chosen as the hall of fame's permanent home. Since opening in September 1995, the "Rock Hall" part of the city's redeveloped North Coast Harbor has hosted more than 10 million visitors and had a cumulative economic impact estimated at more than $1.8 billion. - The Last Emperor is a 1987 British-Italian epic biographical film about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, whose autobiography was the basis for the screenplay written by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci. Independently produced by Jeremy Thomas, it was directed by Bertolucci and released in 1987 by Columbia Pictures. Puyi's life is depicted from his ascent to the throne as a small boy to his imprisonment and political rehabilitation by the Communist Party of China. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'merry christmas' exhibits the relationship of 'production company'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - barcelona - columbia pictures - history - lifetime - paris - recorded picture company - shochiku
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recorded picture company