The trio are taken prisoner, transported to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Centre in Shanghai for processing, and ultimately sent to an internment camp in Suzhou. Jamie is surprised to see lights on in his family home and thinks his parents have returned, only to discover it is occupied by Japanese troops. Unable to sell Jamie for money, Basie and Frank intend to abandon him in the streets, but Jamie offers to lead them to his neighborhood to loot the empty houses there. After being chased by a street urchin, he is taken in by two American expatriates and hustlers, Basie and Frank. Hungry, Jamie tries surrendering to Japanese soldiers who ignore him. After a length of time alone and having eaten the little remaining food, Jamie ventures back into the city. Jamie makes his way back to their house, assuming they will return. As the Graham family evacuate the city, Jamie is separated from his parents in the ensuing chaos. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan begins occupying the settlement. Īmid Japan's invasion of China during World War II, Jamie "Jim" Graham is a British upper class schoolboy enjoying a privileged life in the Shanghai International Settlement. The film received positive reviews, but was not initially a box office success, earning only $22 million at the US box office, but it eventually more than recouped its budget through revenues in other markets. He considers it to be his most profound work on "the loss of innocence". Spielberg was attracted to directing the film because of a personal connection to Lean's films and World War II topics. Harold Becker and David Lean were originally to direct before Spielberg came on board, initially as a producer for Lean. The film tells the story of Jamie "Jim" Graham ( Christian Bale), a young boy who goes from living in a wealthy British family in Shanghai, to becoming a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Ballard's semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name. Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American epic coming-of-age war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tom Stoppard, based on J.
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