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Apr 24, 2009 · It was an enthralling war film - based on the childhood adventures in a Japanese prison camp of author JG Ballard, who died this week. But, as his actual memoirs reveal, the full story was even...
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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. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name.
Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. [2]
Is this based entirely on JG Ballard's experiences during the war? No. The book (which the movie was based on) is a semi-autobiographical - semi-fictionalised account of Ballard's life and his experiences during the second world war.
His story is based on the autobiographical novel by J. G. Ballard, who lived through a similar experience as an adolescent. But if Ballard had not written his novel Spielberg might have been forced to, because the story is so close to his heart.
Dec 14, 2021 · The story of a British boy whose childhood in colonial Shanghai is abruptly curtailed by the onset of World War II, it’s based on an autobiographical novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard.
Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield.
