Bridge to the Sun is a 1961 film, directed by Etienne Périer, starring Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, James Yagi and Tetzuro Tamba. It is based on the 1957 autobiography Bridge To The Sun by Gwendolen Terasaki, which detailed events in Gwen's life and marriage. The memoir narrates the life of Gwen Harold , who in 1931 married Hidenari "Terry" Terasaki, a Japanese diplomat. He was First Secretary at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C. in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was bombed, was one of the staff who helped translate the Japanese declaration of war and delivered it to the U.S. government... and earlier sent secret messages to Japanese pacifists seeking to avert war. The couple and their daughter Mariko were like all Axis diplomats interned in 1942 and repatriated via neutral Angola later that year. Terasaki held various posts in the Japanese Foreign Affairs department up to 1945 when he became an advisor to the Emperor, and was the official liaison between the Palace and General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Allied Commander. Mariko and her mother left Japan in 1949 so Mariko could attend college in Tennessee.
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| Release date: | 1961 |
| Directed by: | Étienne Périer, Étienne Périer |
| Runtime: | 113 Minutes |
| Music by: | Georges Auric |