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Behind the Rising Sun ()

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In Japan, foreigners and their Japanese friends are caught up in the rising tide of militarism.
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Tama Shimamura
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Taro Seki
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Reo Seki
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Lefty O'Doyle
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Sara Braden
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Clancy O'Hara (as Don Douglas)
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Boris
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Grandmother
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Tama's Father
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Japanese Officer Murdering Takahashi (uncredited)
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Inspector (uncredited)
Luke Chan ...
Officer (uncredited)
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Japanese Swordsman (uncredited)
Aen-Ling Chow ...
Japanese Girl (uncredited)
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Takahashi (uncredited)
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Japanese Officer with Message (uncredited)
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Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Mei Lee Foo ...
Geisha Girl (uncredited)
Wing Foo ...
Sergeant (uncredited)
Paul Fung ...
Japanese Swordsman (uncredited)
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Japanese Soldier at Takahashi Murder (uncredited)
Paul Hilton ...
Japanese Schoolboy (uncredited)
Allen Jung ...
Capt. Matsuda (uncredited)
Robert Katcher ...
Prof. Namachi (uncredited)
Eddie Lee ...
Sergeant (uncredited)
George Lee ...
Japanese Soldier (uncredited)
Preston Lee ...
Japanese Boy (uncredited)
Connie Leon ...
Tama's Mother (uncredited)
James B. Leong ...
Japanese Swordsman (uncredited)
Shirley Lew ...
Servant (uncredited)
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Japanese Guard (uncredited)
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Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium (uncredited)
Charles Lung ...
Broker (uncredited)
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Japanese Wrestler (uncredited)
Don Pon ...
Mail Boy (uncredited)
Mrs. Chan Pon ...
Elderly Lady (uncredited)
Jessie Tai Sing ...
Young Mother (uncredited)
H.T. Tsiang ...
Policeman (uncredited)
Barbara Jean Wong ...
Chinese Girl Given Opium (uncredited)
Beal Wong ...
Japanese Major (uncredited)
Bruce Wong ...
First Agent (uncredited)
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Seki's Secretary (uncredited)
Stanley Wong ...
Japanese Swordsman (uncredited)
William Yip ...
Japanese Officer (uncredited)
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Max (uncredited)

Directed by

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Edward Dmytryk

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Emmet Lavery ... (original screenplay)

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Edward Dmytryk ... producer (uncredited)
Howard Hughes ... producer (uncredited)

Music by

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Roy Webb

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Russell Metty

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Joseph Noriega

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Albert S. D'Agostino
Alfred Herman ... (as Al Herman)

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Claude E. Carpenter ... (as Claude Carpenter)
Darrell Silvera

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Edward Stevenson ... (gowns)

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Mel Berns ... makeup artist
Maurice Seiderman ... makeup artist: Margo (uncredited)

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Ruby Rosenberg ... assistant director
Robert Aldrich ... second assistant director (uncredited)

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Roy Meadows ... sound recordist
James G. Stewart ... sound re-recordist
Terry Kellum ... sound (uncredited)

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Vernon L. Walker ... special effects

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John Indrisano ... fight coordinator (uncredited)

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C. Bakaleinikoff ... musical director

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Alice Barlow ... special researcher
Eddie Hall ... stand-in: Tom Neal (uncredited)
James Young ... technical advisor (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

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. Written by Rod Crawford

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Taglines THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT THE JAPS! They force their daughters into Geisha palaces -manhandle captive women-SEE IT ALL! (Print Ad-Philadelphia Inquirer, ((Philadelphia, Penna.)) 27 October 1943) See more »
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Also Known As
  • Face au soleil levant (France)
  • Tras el sol naciente (Spain)
  • Za wschodzacym sloncem (Poland)
  • Japanskt blod (Finland, Swedish title)
  • Sol de sangre (Mexico)
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  • 88 min
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Budget $239,000 (estimated)

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Trivia A B-grade exploitation flick produced for $240,000, "Behind the Rising Sun" (1943) did A-level business at the box office, grossing $1.5 million. This was director Edward Dmytryk's second such hit for RKO that year, following the surprise blockbuster "Hitler's Children" (1943). Over the next four years Dmytryk gained the nickname "Mr. RKO" for consistently turning out profitable films for that studio. See more »
Goofs During the bombing of Tokyo, presumably the Doolittle raid, B-17 "Flying Fortresses" ( a heavy bomber) are shown carrying out the attack. The Doolittle raid was carried out by B-25 bombers, a medium bomber, launched from the aircraft carrier, USS Hornet. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Dark Victory (1987). See more »
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Quotes Reo Seki: Do you know what this is?
Taro Seki: Of course. It's an air map. Say, it's a swell one too.
Reo Seki: You did some flying while you were in college, did you not?
Taro Seki: Yes, I had a pilot's licence.
Reo Seki: Good. Then you will understand quite easily.
Reo Seki: Observe, my son, when the Earth is spread out flat like the very air itself how there is no place in the world more than 60 hours from any other place, then Japan is no longer a little island at the end of beyond. Japan is the very centre of the universe. For the best airlanes lie to the north: Russia, Europe and North America. And we shall be masters of the north and of the east as well. That is quite inevitable.
Taro Seki: That's taking a lot for granted, isn't it?
Reo Seki: Not when you know your geography. Observe again: this is the heartland. Who holds the heartland, holds the world. For here is one fourth of the Earth's surface and one half of its population. Now take a good look, my son, and ask yourself: who is best fitted to hold the heartland? India, China or Japan? Who, in fact, is best fitted to hold the very world itself?
Taro Seki: But surely, Dad, you don't go for that stuff? Who would want to hold the world, even if he could?
Reo Seki: There was a time, my son, when we used to say: "Asia for the Asiatics". That was before we knew our strength. The white man is not only in the minority here; he is in the minority throughout the entire world. And the time will come when we shall see who is the master and who is the slave. That will be a great hour my son. It will belong to Japan. And Japan alone.
Taro Seki: But this isn't the Japan I've come home to work for.
Reo Seki: It is the only Japan there is. We must all rise with it or all perish with it.
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