This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
EMPIRE OF THE SUN is one of the most bafflingly misguided films I’ve seen in years. It’s a movie about the Japanese invasion of China that completely disregards – in fact, erases – the suffering of the Chinese people. It turns the capture of Shanghai into a bloodless affair where the city is never bombarded and the arrival of Japanese soldiers was orderly and basically non-violent (two Chinese defenders are killed – and no civilians). It places all the focus…