An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents.

"Suo G?, the movie's theme song, is a lullaby sung in Welsh. Director Steven Spielberg chose it after casting Welsh actor Christian Bale as Jim. It was sung by James Rainbird.

[Tossing a pair of sunglasses to Jim as the Japanese army begin to beat him]


Basie:
I want these back when they're done.

Continuity: A girl in the background puts on her dress twice as Basie and Jim walk through the holding camp.

Performed by The Ambrosian Junior Choir
Arranged and conducted by John McCarthy
Soloist James Rainbird