Behind the Rising Sun

Behind the Rising Sun (1943)

The year's most timely story.

A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

Date of release
1943-08-01
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
War, Drama
Director
Edward Dmytryk

Casting

Interesting facts

Behind the Rising Sun is a 1943 American war film based on the 1941 book Behind the Rising Sun written by James R. Young. Later-blacklisted Edward Dmytryk directed the film, and it stars Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Ryan and Gloria Holden.

Production

The film was from the writer and director of Hitler's Children which had been a huge success. Edward Dmytryk wrote "We bought a book for its title... Then we concocted a story based largely on incidents as they had been reported from the Orient before Pearl Harbor. For example: The slapping of American women, the dispersal of opium to Chinese to keep them docile, etc.

At one stage the film was known as The Mad Brood of Japan.

A writer RKO's John Tynan, claimed RKO breached copyright in his story, Yank Meets Jap in Fight to Finish, in producing the film.

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