Steven Spielberg's first film as a director since The Color Purple is an inspiring, action-packed epic of a small boy in a great war. That boy is Jim Graham, a young Briton whose unconquerable spirit soars high and free above the harsh confines of a Japanese interment camp. Based on J.G. Ballard's best-seller, this first major Hollywood studio production ever to shoot in the People's Republic of China earned 1987 National Board of Reviews for Best Picture and Director, as well as a special citation for Outstanding Juvenile performance for Christian Bale as Jim.