Empire of the Sun Edit

A friend left them to me.

A million Chinese peasants are trying to enter Shanghai.

A steamer left Shanghai yesterday with 450 British on board...

A third of occupied China's British community...

Above average, but the trend is down.

Actually, he would agree.

Actually, that may be a better name.

Adjusting propeller? Red Dog Leader.

After that...

After the war, you two should play tennis.

All our days are numbered. Ours higher than yours.

All these new words and now this. Fancy candy?

Always delighted to return hospitality.

Always thought he was.

Amabantur. Can I have his shoes when he's dead?

Amabor. It's like losing the war, dying.

Amah, l'll have...

AMAH: Jamie!

American boy?

American fleet? It looks like you almost lost your shirt.

An American initiative. Whoever delivers gets the gravy.

And after that?

And then you'll be shot.

And, Ace, don't forget to bow to the sergeant.

Are our days numbered?

Are they proper pirates, you mean?

Are you with the American fleet?

As a conjurer?

As Far East tensions grow, British nationals evacuate...

At the edge of the airfield, across the canal.

Atom bomb.

B 29s?

Basie, I got you three.

Basie, leave her!

Basie, where do you live?

Basie! Basie!

Basie.

Basie.

Basie....

Basie....

BASlE: All right.

BASlE: Buying and selling, Frank. You know.

BASlE: Come on in, boy.

BASlE: I want these back when they're done.

BASlE: In a minute. Your tongue's running away.

BASlE: Jim, come here.

BASlE: Jim's parents got taken with the other Brits...

BASlE: Madame Sun?

BASlE: Nice pair of golf shoes.

BASlE: Okay, sit. Sit.

BASlE: Shanghai Jim.

BASlE: What about money? JlM: I did see money.

BASlE: You need to lie down?

BASlE: You walked here from Nantao Stadium?

Bastard!

Because he only drinks boiled water.

Because I think for us both.

Because this war is definitely winding down.

Boiled water?

BOY: Mum?

BOY: No mama! No papa! No whiskey soda!

BOY: Wait for me!

Boy.

But Japan's war was lost. Her goal to create...

But we can drink boiled water.

But you gotta know how to stay balanced and make the right friends.

Can l take my glider?

Cathedral School too.

Chew every mouthful six times to get the benefit.

Come along. Off you go.

Come back to the hospital.

Come in, Red Dog Leader. Red Dog Leader, come in.

Come on, children.

Come on, cycle harder!

Come on, Jim.

Come on, man! Come on, kid!

Come on!

Come on! Don't you see? This place is to see who dies!

Come on. l'll take you back to your dad.

Coney lsland pilots.

Could we finish our meal? We know your views on the university of life.

Crystal chandeliers, cocktail bars...

DAlNTY: Look who's here. MAN 1 : So you were under the net?

DAlNTY: Mines. That was a mine. l told you.

Delayed? Some kind of crazy British kid.

Did you ever see...

Difficult boy.

Do you believe in vitamins?

Do you feel better now?

Doesn't look like we'll leave Shanghai soon.

Don't go. lt's better here.

Don't know if it's buildings or what.

Don't leave me! Take me with you, Basie!

Don't let me down, kid. You're an American now.

Don't push me!

Don't run.

Don't worry about Frank, he always eats after me. Don't you, Frank?

Don't worry, Mr. Maxton.

Dr. Rawlins, l've got my homework.

Dream of flying.

Each of the two bombs...

Engine number two on fire. On fire, come in.

Engine two on fire. On fire, on fire, on fire....

English boy, you come now.

English boy!

English boy!

English boy.

English?

Especially military aviation.

Ever been to England?

Everyone stands in awe of the new super weapon.

Everyone.

Everyone.

Everyone.

Everyone.

Everyone.

Everyone.

Excuse me, everyone.

Excuse me, sir. My name is James Graham. l'm British.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Father, look! Zero Sen! It's my plane! Zero Sen!

FATHER: Behave yourself.

FATHER: Come, you're missing the party.

FATHER: Good heavens, this is ridiculous!

FATHER: Hold on. John!

FATHER: Jamie, off the grass!

FATHER: Jamie!

FATHER: Never mind the suitcase. Come on!

FATHER: Slow down. Checkpoint coming up.

FATHER: Stay together! Hang on to Jamie!

Father!

Fine! l don't want her shoes!

First, I could show you some rich pickings.

For heaven's

For heaven's sake!

Frank, we might do all right in one of those camps.

Frank, you'd be surprised how people neglect their kids' teeth.

FRANK: Cathedral?

FRANK: Chow truck's here. Mr. Maxton keeps my place.

FRANK: Find any gold teeth?

FRANK: He's either hungry or crazy.

FRANK: Him and Dainty.

FRANK: It's a changed world. Even if l sell this stuff...

FRANK: Kid, you're starting to get on my nerves.

FRANK: Take it easy.

FRANK: The lucky kid. MAN: Cleaned me out.

Frankly, it's a tossup now between you and Dainty.

Future passive. "I shall be loved."

Get away! This is British food! Leave it alone!

Get down, Jim. Go on, get down!

Get dressed. Do what Mother tells you. We're leaving.

Get out of here.

Get your sister to smile, I'll show you a magic trick.

GIRL: Our rations are at Nantao.

GIRL: Sit there. WOMAN: Eat, please.

Give me a good reason l should.

Give the mosquito net to Mr. Radik. Just give it to him.

Give us our marbles back! At least one more chance.

Go home. l'll find you there! Go home!

Go to sleep. It's the Lockwoods' party tomorrow.

Go! P 51 , Cadillac of the sky!

God rest ye merry gentlemen

Good boy.

Good King Wenceslas looked out On the feast of Stephen

Good night.

Good thing you're friends. He's a survivor.

Guards!

Have you forgotten the cutlery?

He can't have. He promised me!

He gave a taxi driver $5 for bringing me home from Hankow.

He gave me a mango.

He knew it was time.

He knew it was time.

He once gave a taxi

He owns a textile mill on Szechwan Road.

He said Japan will endure the unendurable and suffer greatly.

He's escaped?

He's gone?

He's gone.

He's on my tail! On my tail!

He's seen something.

Head straight in that direction.

Hello, darling. Lovely to see you.

Hello...

Help me!

Help me!

Help me! Help me!

Help me! l'm British!

Here we go!

Here.

Hey!

Hey!

Hey! Hey, English boy!

Hold on to him!

Horsepower!

How about Louis Charles and Michael of the Avenue Foch gang?

How are you feeling?

How you doing, Frank?

How's your friend, Dr. Schweitzer?

Hundreds of houses left empty.

I always eat after you, Basie.

I am a British doctor. They are my responsibility!

I am dressed.

I bet you there are no mines. You can walk right through.

I brought Amy Matthews back to life for a minute.

I can bring everyone back.

I can bring everyone back.

I can bring everyone back.

I can bring everyone back.

I can bring everyone back.

I can bring everyone back.

I can bring everyone back.

I can bring her back to life!

I can speak

I can't back out! There's no reverse!

I can't remember it now.

I can't remember what my parents look like.

I didn't mean it. lt was a joke.

I don't know about God.

I don't want her shoes.

I don't want you two alone in the house.

I double my bet. My next two meals.

I felt their heat! l can taste them. Oil and cordite.

I have to give Basie something

I hope we'll be here too.

I knew she'd come back.

I know just the man.

I know.

I know.

I learned a new word today.

I look after him for his daddy.

I may join the Japanese Air Force.

I once met Madame Sun Yat Sen.

I only meant lucky.

I rely on you for keeping up to date on the war.

I saw it.

I saw that! l saw it! I saw it!

I saw them crash through a burning wall.

I subscribe. lt has Packard, Studebaker, Jell O. Things from home.

I surrender!

I surrender!

I surrender! l surrender. Please!

I surrender.

I surrender.

I think she died, Basie.

I think so.

I think your father would agree.

I thought it was Mrs. Victor's soul going to heaven.

I told you to look out for my stuff.

I used to play bridge with my mother in her bedroom.

I want you to get Mrs. Partridge's potato while you're there.

I was beaten by a stoker once.

I was much younger then.

I was presented.

I wasn't able to sell any goddamn portholes.

I wonder how you'll take to school in England.

I worked underground for the Kuomintang.

I'd like to surrender, please!

I'd like to surrender. Please, sir.

I'd like you to come and meet my parents.

I'll get ours. You sit down.

I'll give you a whole fruit salad!

I'll locate my parents when the people in the camps come out.

I'll show you the houses I lived in before Frank found me.

I'll work for you. l'll do anything! Take me with you!

I'm a British citizen!

I'm building a man flying kite...

I'm waiting for my chauffeur.

I'm waiting for my parents. They've been delayed.

I'm your friend.

I've been there lots of times. Straight in that direction!

I've been thinking about going upriver.

I've had worse.

I've lived here my whole life! I know my way everywhere.

I've never been there.

I've seen no pheasants, have you?

If l set the traps, could l live here?

If we stay in the camps, the Japanese will look after us.

If we'd died like the others, our bones would be in the runway.

In between, it's like a country club.

Is he a kind of priest?

Is that right?

It has a mirrored dance floor, radiogram, fountain...

It may have been my fault. I'm terribly sorry.

It reached us in a shock wave...

It was like a white light in the sky.

It'd be simpler to live here.

It's a school for taipans.

It's all right. You're almost one of us. You see that Mustang?

It's at the beginning and end of war that we have to watch out.

It's how we'll win, refusing to die.

It's just a little fever. Don't worry. We've all had it.

It's our food. Get away!

It's perfectly all right. I can wash it.

It's the lorry. The lorry!

It's turned around. It's all timing.

It's why you can't see him.

James Graham. I'm writing a book on contract bridge.

Jamie, don't let go!

Jamie, for God's sake, sit down!

Jamie, get out of the car. Quickly!

Jamie!

Jamie!

Jamie!

Jamie! Jamie!

Jamie?

Jamie?

Jamie.

Jamie.

Japan is devastated, destroyed in spirit...

Jesus Christ, Frank.

Jim, chew your food.

Jim, get off the roof!

Jim, the curtain.

Jim, where's my husband? Where's Mr. Victor?

Jim!

Jim!

Jim!

Jim!

Jim?

Jim. A new name for a new life.

Jim's a black cat.

JlM: 82, 83, 84....

JlM: A cork and needle?

JlM: Am l going to school? MOTHER: There's no school today.

JlM: Basie.

JlM: Come on. No!

JlM: Do you know General Winter?

JlM: Enemy aircraft sighted!

JlM: Hello, everybody.

JlM: I don't want them.

JlM: I've got yours, Mr. Maxton.

JlM: It might be strange.

JlM: Mother!

JlM: My plane!

JlM: Please, sir!

JlM: Please! No! Please!

JlM: That one has whiskey, gin....

JlM: The Americans are over Nantao again.

JlM: The war's over!

JlM: They're bombing the Shanghai docks!

JlM: Why can't he sell me? FRANK: Nobody wants you.

John!

Ju Julie!

Just made the traps. Works like a noose.

Keep away from the window.

Keep the ball in play, first in line.

Keeps himself busy, doesn't he?

Kid, you all right?

Kid, you want a Hershey's bar?

Kid. Kid, you okay?

Know about psychic bidding? It's in my book.

Learn it as a poem. It's not just a string of words.

Let's go, Frank.

Let's just call them gentlemen of fortune, shall we?

Let's leave the boy alone.

Let's say you need three diamonds.

Life.

Like God taking a photograph.

Listen

Listen, Basie! Take me with you! I can't stay here!

Listen!

Little hope of progress remains...

Lockwood's invited a Chink.

Long enough to spoil your harvest and steal what's left of it.

Look what l found under my truck. I'm sorry already.

Looks like your size, Jim.

Luckier than him.

Luxuriant?

Make a muscle.

Mama?

MAN [ON RADlO]: backed by reinforcements into Malaya....

MAN [ON RADlO]: Surrender reached the Japanese in a broadcast by Hirohito.

MAN [ON SPEAKER]: Attention, prisoners! For camp transport, assemble outside.

MAN 1 : The camps are full. It's our bad luck to be taken here.

MAN 1 : They cut the bloody rations!

MAN 1 : They're moving us to Nantao! There's food there.

MAN 1 : Two cigarettes on Jim! MAN 2: Sunglasses on Nagata!

MAN 2: Cleaned up your room.

MAN 2: Green apples! Green apples!

MAN 2: One suitcase! We leave in one hour! One suitcase!

MAN 2: The Japs haven't enough camps for us all.

MAN 2: They cut our rations in half!

MAN 2: You can't do this!

MAN 3: Keep going, sarge!

MAN 3: No! I'm with them!

MAN: "Stay, gentle Helena, hear my excuse."

MAN: Come on!

MAN: Come on!

MAN: Hello.

MAN: I've got some! l've got some!

MAN: Just look...

MAN: Maybe the Japs put down mines. Hey, boss. Boss!

MAN: Mrs. Phillips!

MAN: That must be the camp. We'll live right by the airfield.

MAN: What about mines? Get out.

MAN: What's happening?

Many thanks, Basie.

Mary!

Maybe I can help you find your parents.

Mind the plane. Prop it against the seat. Right, Yang.

More than 1 00,000 people were killed...

MOTHER: John!

MOTHER: Why? To see how things are going.

Mother!

Mother!

Mother...

Mr. Lockwood? He's with the British Association.

Mr. Maxton.

Mrs. Gilmour!

Mrs. Graham, she...

Mrs. Victor, we're going upcountry.

MRS. VICTOR: Must you, Jim? Sorry.

Mrs. Victor.

Mrs. Victor.

Mum! Mummy!

Mum?

Mummy!

Mummy! Mum! No!

My father has a cotton mill at...

My father knows important people. Do you know my father?

My father will give you a reward.

My harmonica...

My husband's in there!

My parents were members of the country club. Straight that way.

Nagasaki is Japan's gateway to China...

Nagata!

Nakajima. Two machine guns.

Nantao Creek is full of cholera. They've got more sense.

Nice plane finish!

No mama. No papa. No whiskey soda.

No, I haven't.

No, I mean after the war.

No, without you I wouldn't have the needle.

No.

No.

No. Sorry.

Nothing. He was playing tennis.

Now do you know where we are? We're here, okay?

Now don't speed up. Keep the rhythm.

Now it's chow time. Get in line.

Now number seven for the sketch.

Off the grass!

Oh.

Okay, go. Go on. Hurry.

Okinawa. Philippines. Tokyo's in bombing range now.

On the truck, there's an old man.

One side feeds you, the other tries to kill you.

One suitcase!

Only a few scientists knew the power in splitting the uranium atom.

Only cost me two batteries.

Opulence.

Opulence.

Out of the way. Chip across the water.

Outside. Make one line. Number one prisoner group to gate.

P 51 , Cadillac of the sky!

P 51 ! Aren't they beautiful?

Papa! Papa!

Paul. Your name Paul?

Perhaps it's time you moved into the men's dormitory.

Perhaps that's where God is all the time.

Perhaps there'll be a boat. Sorry. Max was right.

Perhaps you don't know anyone.

Pheasant?

Piles of notes on the table. I'm taking you there.

Pipe down.

Please, I'm British.

Please, on the truck is a sick old man. Please....

Please!

Please!

Please!

Please!

Pretend you're dead, Mrs. Victor.

Pretty soon, you'll be sick all the time.

Prisoners, number one truck.

Probably my parents are on a ship to Hong Kong.

Put that down.

Quickly!

Rawlins is on the take.

RAWLINS: Can you do this?

RAWLINS: Everybody inside, quick! MAN: Away from the buildings!

RAWLINS: I'm all right.

RAWLINS: We must have rest and food.

RAWLINS: You admire the Japanese? JlM: They're brave.

Remember how we helped to build the runway?

Remember, we're British.

Reprisals, and damned silly it is too.

Say, Basie, l bet he hits a mine.

See?

Settle down, Sinbad!

Shanghai Frisco will be the trip now. Huh, Jim?

She didn't call me anything. I was 3.

She died, but didn't hand in her dinner pail.

She had dark hair.

She just looked at me. She looked at me! I've done it!

She thought she was dying in England.

She used to comb her hair. I'd watch her.

She's gone, Dr. Rawlins.

She's with God now.

Ship's steward. Shanghai Frisco line.

Singapore revealed that Japanese forces in lndochina...

So far, so good.

So would l, kid. You got one?

So would l. Have you got one?

SOLDlER: Healthy ones go. Sick stay.

SOLDlER: Name? George Flynn.

SOLDlER: Name? MAN 1 : Summers.

Some of us will die just before we're saved, so use everything.

Somebody lobbed a grenade.

Someone has paid a lot of bills for that sweet mouth.

Somewhere else.

Somewhere safe. Singapore?

Soochow!

Soochow!

Sorry, but don't mind him.

Sorry.

Spends most of his time at the 1 9th hole.

Squeeze up.

Stand still, John.

Stay with me, darling!

Stick out your arm. Neat.

Stop breathing so much. There ain't enough air.

Stop it, Jim!

Stop it. l don't want her shoes!

Stop it. Leave her. Leave her!

Strange child.

Take it up the Yangtze estuary. Rendezvous with some Hakka friends.

Take me!

Take the Wang Pu Road. Let's avoid the crowds.

Tell him who we are, then

Thank you, Yang.

Thank you.

That one has whiskey, gin and a white piano.

That's a dead boy, Basie. I'll give you odds.

That's a splendid cabbage. Thanks.

That's a well kept set of teeth.

That's not fair! Give us our marbles back.

That's what l'm going to call our little outfit.

That's worth a Reader's Digest. Increase your word power.

The best teacher's the university of life.

The best way is across the river.

The British dorm's so lethargic. Will you let me?

The Cathedral School.

The guards are leaving! They're taking us upcountry.

The harder l work, the luckier we get.

The Japanese get hungry too.

The Japanese will win. They've got better planes and braver pilots.

The Japanese, four years. Nothing.

The Japs are not looking for us.

The lorry!

The plan is, we're going to get a sampan.

The rations have been cut. They're like animals.

The river's east. You can go up the bank or up the middle...

The Russian declaration of war...

The Super fortress. A hemisphere defense weapon.

The war minister and others committed suicide outside the palace.

The white light.

Then they'll send for me.

Then your partner, when he gets four aces...

There certainly was good living!

There isn't enough air for you in China.

There was opulence!

There's been a mistake.

There's Frigidaires falling from the sky!

There's none here.

They are sick of me.

They want us to carry stones!

They were bigger than me.

They were luxuriant!

They'll fight the Americans.

They're waiting for something to happen.

Think of it as the antidote.

This'll be the place on Thanksgiving. I'll have pheasant.

Those from the hospital garden?

Those Hankow merchants...

Those huts at a distance.

Three years with him?

To punish the grownups.

Today will die, tomorrow Time stoops to no man's lure

Tokyo was hit with a dawn to dusk raid by 1 500 B 29 bombers.

Tomorrow, gerunds. What about English?

Try not to think so much!

Try not to think so much.

Turn right here.

Until you find a place, you could live at Amherst Avenue.

Wait!

Wait! Wait!

Watch her eyes. l can do it again!

We are civilians. Listen to me.

We are never sure of sorrow Joy was never sure

We could fill up the pool...

We don't say anything. Just look him in the eye.

We don't want them to win.

We gotta get out of here.

We have the guns, the planes and 500 million fighting back.

We have to beat them.

We have to turn left here. We have to turn left, okay?

We should all eat the weevils.

We'd have to strip the Queen Mary! So we don't have any rice for you.

We'll be up to our asses in junk, eating rats when the Japs walk in.

We'll fill the pool and eat three meals a day.

We'll go look at these houses.

We'll have to leave the camp?

We'll see if Yang can take us home.

We're an embarrassment to them. They can't feed us much longer.

We're awfully lucky.

We're going upcountry, Jim.

We're luckier than most. He's luckier than some.

We're moving into the hotel.

Were you a stoker?

What about cash?

What are you doing here?

What are you doing, Basie?

What did you see? Rich pickings?

What do I do with this?

What do they call you?

What do you think you're doing?

What's happening, doctor?

What's it tell you?

What's your name?

When the snow lay round about Deep and crisp and even

Where am l gonna sleep?

Where do you live?

Where from?

Where'd you get a map?

Where's my mother and father?

Why did he beat you?

Why'd the Japanese close the school?

Will there be food there?

With 250 calibers...

With love grown

WOMAN: Gather in, children.

WOMAN: Hello, Jim.

WOMAN: Oh, God. Please, no!

WOMAN: This is disgusting. Get some water.

Won't taste the same without you.

Yang, get us to the waterfront.

Yeah.

Yes, please, Basie.

Yes.

You can't drink water from here. People are dying of dysentery.

You come now.

You cut the bloody rations! You cut them!

You do what I say or we'll never get to Soochow.

You give the mosquito net to whoever's dying next?

You got a bet.

You had good sense being born there. It was good living.

You have to do what l say.

You just think three diamonds.

You must know some important people, son.

You pragmatist.

You pumped some blood into her brain, just for a moment.

You put down your aces and then....

You see this mosquito net?

You taught me people will do anything for a potato.

You wouldn't want a watch, would you?

You'll die here.

You'll wear yourself out looking after everyone.

You're a tired boy, Jim.

You're in charge of my stuff.

You're not 1 2 anymore.

You're not feeling sorry for me, are you?

You're on, my friend.

You're welcome, Jim.

You're worth nothing. Skin and bone.

You've been in Shanghai 1 00 years. It's only an incident.

You've got nice manners. I appreciate that.

You've the British dorm to go to when they're sick of you.

Young Jim.

Your boy tells me he's an atheist.

Zero?

1 3 Amherst Avenue.

87 weevils today, Mr. Victor.

...and crystal chandeliers. Crystal chandeliers?

...the Hell Drivers in Shanghai? Yes. On the newsreels.

'45. '45? How'd you get that?

"You will have been loved." Amatus eris.

A 200 pounder. That was close.

A compass that actually works. Put it down.

American boy? English.

And you always eat first. You said it, kid.

Big kisses. There he is.

Boss, it's the kid. BASlE: Come in.

Can you get me a sewing needle? l'll try.

Chow time. Thank you.

Damn it, they're Japs. l see. Back out.

Did you get a cork? l got one.

Didn't I teach you anything? Yes!

Don't look back. Thanks.

Don't worry. I'll get yours. You're just like your father.

English humor? Scottish whiskey.

Everyone. Everyone. Jim!

Excuse me! Excuse me! Yang!

Get down! l touched them!

Good night, Jamie. Perhaps he's our dream...

He said we need the protein. Yes, he's right.

He was my friend! He was a Jap!

He'll be ingratiated to you. BASlE: Ingratiated is a fine word.

Hello, Jim. Hello, Nina.

Help me! BOY: Stop running.

Here are your clothes. Better than the Shanghai laundry.

Just go forward. Come on!

Keep holding my hand! MOTHER: Stop shoving me!

Keep the patients from the windows. Yes, doctor.

l almost feel human. Without me, you'd have no compass.

l don't see a camp. MAN: Over there. See?

l don't want them. Somebody will.

l got a new one today: pragmatist. Good word.

l hear you resigned from the Scouts. l'm now an atheist.

l left my plane. Never mind.

l think they were crystal. You're tired.

l was dreaming about God. What did he say?

l'll tell my dad you looked after me. Think I'll get the reward?

l'm a doctor. Let me through. WOMAN: That's not fair!

Leave Shanghai while you can. They leave us alone.

Living here, having everything. Naughty!

ln a way, it's our runway. No, it's their runway, Jim.

ls it time to close ranks? Get Mary and the boy out.

ls it time? No, I'll tell you when.

lt's a consideration. Take me with you?

lt's the Cadillac of the sky. That's right. B 29s too.

Mistress, very beautiful. Thank you, Amah. Off we go.

My Life. Who's on the cover?

No one feels sorry for you, Basie. That's right.

No, no, no. WOMAN: Please!

Oh, that war. Well, China isn't our war.

Our wire. That close?

Outside the wire. Which wire?

Please! Please!

Presented. You two keep getting presented.

See you back on board. MAN 1 : See you, Charlie.

Soochow. Soochow!

Taxi! Over here! Taxi! WOMAN 1 : Excuse me!

Tell me when it's time? Promise? Promise.

That's fine. l've never seen that one. What year?

That's important? lf you want to win a war.

The caterers are arriving. l'll be there!

They didn't look angry. lt's not anger. lt's patience.

Tokyo? Time to think of going home soon.

Too close for Nagata. He won't like that.

Use your wedge! That boy, running wild!

Very good. Utterly convincing. Thank you.

We should eat the weevils. l know. Dr. Rawlins told you.

We'll be here after every war. Here's to that.

What did you say your name was? Jamie.

What happens when war ends? Do you want it to end?

What reward? You told everyone.

What was that? A 29 going down.

What will we do? Get out.