Empire of the Sun (1987)
Leslie Phillips: Maxton
Photos
Quotes
-
Jim : [about the Japanese troops camped nearby] It almost looks as if they're waiting for something to happen...
John Graham, Jim's father : Yes.
Jim : They didn't look angry or anything...
Maxton : It's not their anger; it's their patience.
-
[first lines]
Narrator : [title card] In 1941 China and Japan had been in a state of undeclared war for four years. A Japanese army of occupation was in control of much of the countryside and many towns and cities. In Shanghai thousands of Westerners, protected by the diplomatic security of the International Settlement, continued to live as they had lived since the British came here in the 19th century and built in the image of their own country... built banking houses, hotels, offices, churches and homes that might have been uprooted from Liverpool or Surrey. Now their time was running out. Outside Shanghai the Japanese dug in and waited... for Pearl Harbor.
