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Best Film Promoting International Understanding | 1962
1961
Opened in Paris in March 1964 as "Le pont vers le soleil;" running times: 115 and 88 min.
Bridge to the Sun (1961) is a biographical film directed by Etienne Périer and starring Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, James Yagi, Tetsurô Tanba and Sean Garrison. It is based on the 1957 autobiography Bridge to the Sun by Gwendolen Terasaki, which detailed events in Terasaki's life and marriage.
Although critical reception was tepid, Etienne Périer received a Golden Globe Award nomination for "Promoting International Understanding." The film was also recognized as "Picture of the Month" by Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and Parents magazines.
Location scenes filmed in Japan and Washington, D. C.
Principal cast members were due to arrive on 17 Oct 1960 in Washington, D.C., where eight days of exteriors were scheduled to be shot before production moved to Kyoto, Japan, until Christmas. After Japan, five weeks of interior filming were slated to be done in Paris, France. The picture was thus classified as a Japanese-French co-production so that French subsidies and an "automatic Japanese import license" could be obtained, although MGM had at least partially, if not fully, financed it, and retained worldwide distribution rights.
"Gwen Terasaki: Well, go on say it: I was a shameless hussy and I disgraced your household. Well I am not going to crawl on my knees to you just because I made a little social error. Hidenari Terasaki: Social error? Forgetting your place as wife of my household? Insulting a guest? Gwen Terasaki: Who insulted whom, I'd like to know. What are you getting so worked up for anyhow? You didn't agree with him either. Hidenari Terasaki: That is my privilege as a man, not yours. You were rude and humiliating. Acting thus may be permissible in the State of Tennessee... Gwen Terasaki: Never mind the State of Tennessee, at least they treat women like human beings. Why the minute you stepped off the ship you started pushing me around like a 14th Century samurai. Hidenari Terasaki: 16th Century. Gwen Terasaki: Okay. Well this is the twentieth. I don't mind going in the doors behind you. I don't even mind bowing to your friends and relatives but when a girl can't even open her mouth without starting a scandal... Hidenari Terasaki: Then keep mouth shut! According to custom. Gwen Terasaki: Your customs. Not mine. And you can put them back in the Middle Ages where they belong. Furthermore I am sick of smiling and scraping and bowing even when you'd like to murder somebody. I'm sick of all the set of complicated rules that put honour and duty before simple human truth. I'm sick of a place where people can't show their real emotions; where women are treated like pieces of furniture and it's a quaint old custom for fathers to sell their baby daughters. Hidenari Terasaki: Stop weeping! Gwen Terasaki: I'll weep if a I want to. Hidenari Terasaki: Trick of American women to obtain pity. Stop it! Gwen Terasaki: I know what they call me at the Foreign Office; "Terasaki's Falling". Well Aunt Peggy was right and so was your ambassador. I only wish I'd listened to them"
