The production team is first rate, directed by Steven Sielberg with screen play written by

Rating: 10/10 (22 October 2006)

the screen play written by Tom Stoppard.
The film is based on JC Ballard's best selling novel off the same name and he was in a Japanese concentration camp as a boy like Jim (Jamie) in the film.
Some special moments: Jim sings the Chinese Hymn to the Dead to three Japanese Kamikase pilots as they take off. Jim says "I can't remember what my parents look like" and bursts into tears for the only time in five years. He sees tha atom bomb burst over Nagasaki which he describes as like God taking a photograph.
A most moving film that I would recommend to anyone.