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Empire of the Sun, 1987
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Empire of the Sun

1987 12+ 2 hours 33 min.
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To survive in a world at war, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
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Country:  USA
Genres:  Drama War History
Properties:
complex dramatic realistic sentimental cruel slow ambiguous
Director:  Steven Spielberg
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Writers:  Tom Stoppard Menno Meyjes J.G. Ballard
Producers:  Kathleen Kennedy Chris Kenny Steven Spielberg Frank Marshall Robert Shapiro
Camerman:  Allen Daviau
Music:  John Towner Williams
Studios:  Warner Bros. Pictures Amblin Entertainment
Premiere: 08 December 1987
Budget:$35 000 000
Competitions: Oscar
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1989
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Tags:  war Japanese 1945 parents china Shanghai internment camp British prisoner of war friend capture army life dead boy imperial Japan based on real events separation from family Asia cruelty Chinese nanny text at the beginning of the film street life Japan pirate bet theater driver aviation baseball racism Sergeant murder nun pilot bath crowd refugee hong kong Philippines robbery student prison cemetery 1940s ship heaven suicide army American peasant trade coming of age friendship Singapore Japanese occupation of China comics armed forces child tennis teacher sun empire language barrier sword race relations golf soldier prisoner katana colonialism radio singer shot swimming pool Guy boat doctor battle Tokyo Japan choir stampede of people/animals chess hospital bombing epic nurse thief food water piano suit party hotel death atomic bomb church class differences us army statue betrayal faint protein coin Chinese soldier beating luck suitcase doc Movie camera survival fireworks radio messages dying parachute chocolate Cigarette photography soul Dream breaking a window salutation tank fasting potatoes nuclear explosion scavenger chase binoculars fever garland evacuation mercenary milk poem Chinese army bafta award British Academy 1989 rice hunger dirt pickaxe teeth vitamin shoe stethoscope cholera garden Kiss eyes weld pianist singing hostel limousine stone shooting candle song flight flowers Cadillac motorcycle explosion coffin bicycle dysentery bridge coolie truck indochina stadium courage blood persecution grenade theft courage g gowkart crying gramophone tears atheist Fight surrender plane harbor slap barter dream dream clash of cultures black market teenage boy Firearms cattle far east starving child toy plane barbed wire nagasaki japanese exploding building smoking cigar Smoking cigarettes pretending to be dead us air force kite loss of innocence death march Voiceover no credits at the beginning of the film air raid coastline pirate costume Footprint tin can motorcycle with sidecar underwear dead child go on the run yangtze river Japanese soldier costume party Japanese army Okinawa Japan Japanese occupation feeling of hatred country club beaten with a cane us soldier harmonica sunglasses bridge game head injury disappointment wristwatches abandoned ship textile factory guard tower legless man pearl Harbor abandoned house salt mine dead woman corporal punishment exploding plane Hiroshima Japan paratrooper street market child starring soldiers of good luck father-son relationship relationship between husband and wife mother-son relationship the world through the eyes of a child US Navy music for the film performed by an orchestra flight of a paper snake drop of cargo from aircraft Japanese Air Force theft from a dead body symphonic music in the background mention of Norman Rockwell runway mention of Franklin Roosevelt surrealism children's ball game Imperial Japanese Army music from sources shown in the film recording (paper audio video) Based on the novel male protagonist Coney Island New York dead woman with open eyes
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Cast:  Christian Bale John Malkovich Miranda Richardson Nigel Havers Joe Pantoliano Leslie Phillips Masato Ibu Emily Richard Rupert Frazer Peter Gale Ben Stiller Marc de Jonge David Neidorf Ralph Seymour Guts Ishimatsu Yvonne Gilan Sybil Maas Burt Kwouk Robert M. Stephens Sylvia Marriott Paul McGann Ray Charleson Peter Copley James Greene Takatoro Kataoka Ann Queensberry Kieron Jecchinis Eric Flynn Frank Duncan Ralph Michael Paula Hamilton James Walker Lu Ye John Moore Hiro Arai Anna Turner Simon Harrison Sheridan Forbes
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