Cornell-educated Taro Seki returns to Japan just as the war party gains control. He hopes to work for American engineer O'Hara, and falls for his secretary Tama, but he is drafted. War service in China finally hardens Taro to atrocities, and he returns to Japan a changed man. His father, now a cabinet minister, feels remorse at what war has done to his son and country, but too late to save Taro's foreign friends.... (Full plot summary below)
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Cornell-educated Taro Seki returns to Japan just as the war party gains control. He hopes to work for American engineer O'Hara, and falls for his secretary Tama, but he is drafted. War service in China finally hardens Taro to atrocities, and he returns to Japan a changed man. His father, now a cabinet minister, feels remorse at what war has done to his son and country, but too late to save Taro's foreign friends.
Leave your thoughts about Behind the Rising Sun.
| User ReviewJenn MIt was okay. Its an interesting beginning, kind of lagged a bit and then a lot of things happen inthe last half. Basically a nice, naive, man, Seki quickly falls for his fathers secretary, which is wrong because he family doesn't come from money. Seki goes off to war with China and is disgusted at what he sees. However, he is told that he must ignore these things and basically grow some balls. When he returns home, he is confronted about what he saw and how he did nothing about it. He no longer is the nice guy that he used to be. I don't want to give away the ending too much but its good. |
| User ReviewAndrea HDidn't anyone find it offensive that WHITE actors were playing Asians? AND THEY LOOKS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS |
