Trivia: Movie - Empire of the Sun - 1987

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Eric Flynn, who plays a British POW, was actually a POW as a child in a Japanese camp.

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David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia) originally wanted to direct the film.

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Over 5,000 local extras were used, some old enough to remember the Japanese occupation of Shanghai 40 years earlier. Members of the People's Liberation Army played Japanese soldiers.