Bridge To The Sun

feature film, 1961.

DIRECTED BY: Etienne Périer

Bridge To The Sun

CAST:
Carroll Baker (Gwen Terasaki),
James Shigeta (Hidenari Terasaki),
James Yagi (Hara),
Tetsurô Tanba (Jiro),
Yôko Takahashi

SCRIPT:
Charles Kaufman (prema istoimenoj autobiografiji Gwendolen Terasaki)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
William J. Kelly,
Seiichi Kizuka,
Marcel Weiss

Synopsis:
The film is based on the American Gwen Terasaki’s autobiography and tells the story of her marriage to the Japanese diplomat from Washington, Hidenari Terasaki. They met and fell in love before WW II. After the attack on Pearl Harbor they move to Japan and remain there until the end of war. Gwen, as a white American, has trouble living in the new country and culture.

b/w, 35 mm, 113 min