Empire of the sun imdb

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Sign In. Empire of the Sun Hide Spoilers. I had put off watching this until recently, I do not know why, I had not read reviews and for some reason imagined it to be a movie about a young Japanese prince!! I was captivated by the performance of Christian Bale as a privileged young boy named Jim Graham, growing up in Shanghai, very far removed from the poverty and despair all around him.

Empire of the sun imdb

Sign In. Edit Empire of the Sun Jim John Malkovich Basie Miranda Richardson Victor Nigel Havers Rawlins Joe Pantoliano Frank Demarest Leslie Phillips Nagata as Masato Ibu Emily Richard Jim's Mother Rupert Frazer Jim's Father Peter Gale Dainty David Neidorf Tiptree Ralph Seymour Cohen Robert Stephens

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Empire of the sun imdb

Day and night, the boy dreams of flying. He knows the names of all the airplanes and can spot them by their silhouettes. When they fly overhead in Shanghai in the last days before World War II breaks out, they may be an ominous omen for his parents, but for him they are wondrous machines, free of gravity, free to soar. The boy's parents are wealthy British citizens who enjoy a life of great luxury in Shanghai, a life in which limousines hurry them through the crowded streets to business meetings and masquerade balls and they hardly need notice the ordinary people in those streets. Sometimes the Chinese press too close to the car, sometimes they hold up traffic, but mostly they are simply invisible - until war breaks out, and the boy's whole world is shattered. The most agonizing moment in Steven Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" comes near the beginning as the streets of Shanghai are filled with a panic-stricken mob and he is separated from his parents as they flee to sanctuary.

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I believe this is Steven Spielberg's most noteworthy film. Jamie Graham Christian Bale is a spoiled British upper class schoolboy. Japanese Truck Driver Hiro Arai Warner Bros. I've never experienced it. Pym Sylvia Marriott But Lean soars so high there's plenty of room for others to fly beneath him without crashing. Emma Piper Amy Matthews. When war breaks out, this changes him forever and hence the story. It's a suicide mission, and they were very proud of it.

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps.

British Prisoner Barbara Bolton When Alexander Solzhenitsyn said " The only difference between the Nazis and the communists is that the Nazis used gas " it's a statement that could have been used to describe the Japanese occupation forces of the s and 40s , but here they're shown as noble warriors I don't dispute the raw courage of the Japanese of the time but there's nothing noble about mass murder who salute the young James. Learn more about contributing. Was this review helpful? Eric Flynn British Prisoner. Chen's Aide. British Prisoner Paula Hamilton Frank Demarest Leslie Phillips It was the most economical way of getting through to the boy, it needed to be done, she'd wanted to do it for a while - and having done it ONCE, she could now move on to other things. They eat dumplings family-style, using long, blunt-ended chopsticks. Learn more. The film contains parts very competently played by the then relatively un-knowns John Malkovic, Joey "Pants" and Ben Stiller. There is some typical and predictable Spielberg sentimental stuff in the movie. Other favourites in no order. Zero Pilot uncredited Ken Enomoto