I just saw "Bridge to the Sun" (1961) for the first time and was totally blown away by it. What an excellent movie!!
It stars Carroll Baker and James Shigeta. She's from Tennessee and he's a Japanese diplomat in the U.S. in the mid 1930's. They fall in love and marry and have a kid and then comes December 7, 1941.
He gets deported back to Japan and Baker and daughter go with him. It's an excellent telling of the war with a pronounced Japanese perspective and it's a great love story.
It's one of the most haunting movies I've ever seen and would highly recommend it to anyone desiring to watch a good, deep story with wonderful acting.
Yeah, I had been meaning to check that movie out and hate that I missed. Next time its on, I'll check it out simply because of your recommendation.
btw, tomorrow night on TCM at 2AM is THE APPLE....which I've not seen, but from what people have told me, its one of the more surreal pictures to have ever been produced (shot by the same producers of Cannon Films, which produced mostly Jean Claude Van Damm/Chuck Norris/Sylvester Stallone B-action movies)....
Plus, its a bad picture apparently. But hey, TCM is airing it now.
