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Empire of the Sun influenced Empire of the Sun
Added by Media Influence Map · 30 September 2026
The evidence
Steven Spielberg's film adapts J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel about a British boy separated from his parents in Shanghai and interned in a Japanese camp during the Second World War.
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