FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Empire of the Sun
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer77%as of 2024-08-02
- Rotten Tomatoes average6.8/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic62/100as of 2025-07-14
What it is
Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tom Stoppard, based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name. The film tells the story of Jamie "Jim" Graham, a young boy who goes from living with his wealthy British family in Shanghai to becoming a prisoner of war in an internment camp operated by the Japanese during World War II.
At a glance
- Genres
- War / Drama
- Original language
- English
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