Other Titles • Empire of the Sun • Das Reich der Sonne (1988)
Quotes from Empire of the Sun (1987)
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Jim: I can't remember what my parents look like.
(8 votes)
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[Tossing a pair of sunglasses to Jim as the Japanese army begin to beat him] Basie: I want these back when they're done.
(6 votes)
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Jim: I was dreaming about God. Mother: What did he say? Jim: Nothing. [smiles] Jim: He was playing tennis.
(5 votes)
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Jim: I was dreaming about God. Mary Graham: What did he say? Jim: Nothing. He was playing tennis. Perhaps that's where God is all the time and that's why you can't see Him when you're awake, do you think? Mary Graham: I don't know. I don't know about God. Jim: Perhaps He's our dream... and we're His.
(5 votes)
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Jim: Dr. Rawlin, do you remember how we had helped build the runway? If we die like the others, our bones would be IN the runway. In a way, it's OUR runway... Dr. Rawlins: No it's THEIR runway, Jim! Try not to think so much! Try not to THINK so much!
(4 votes)
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[after Basie's friend killed Jim's Japanese friend] Jim: Bastard! He gave me a mango! Basie: I'll give you a whole goddamn fruit salad. There are Frigidaires falling from the sky. It's kingdom come! Jim: He was my friend! Basie: He was a Jap! Jim: The war's over!
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Jim: I touched it! I touched it! I felt the heat! I can taste it in my mouth, oil and cordite!
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[approching a group of Japanese soldiers in Shanghai] Jamie: Excuse me everyone... [throws arms up] Jamie: I surrender. Japanese Soldiers: [laughing and mocking Jamie] I surrender! I surrender. Banzai! Banzai!
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Jamie: Help me, I'm British.
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Jim: Are you with the American Fleet? Frank: American Fleet! Looks like you lost your shirt kid.
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Basie: What did you say your name was boy? Jamie: Jamie and I'm building a man-flying kite and writing a book called Contract Bridge. Basie: Jim a new name for a new life.
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[last lines] Mary Graham: [upon finding her barely recognizable son] Jamie?... Jamie?... Jamie?
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[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.
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Basie: Don't let me down kid you're an American now. Jim: [in a Brooklyn accent] Hey how'ya doin' Frank?
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Dainty: What else you betting with Baise? Basie: My LIFE. [shows a copy of LIFE magazine]
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Jim: [during an American airstrike] P-51! Cadillac of the sky!
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