Bridge to the Sun

Her first day in Tokyo, 1935, American bride Gwen (Carroll Baker), with Japanese diplomat husband “Terry” (James Shigeta), has some trouble with the emperor, does better with his pals (Tetsuro Tamba, Hiroshi Tomono), but less-so with his hostess aunt, in MGM’s Bridge To The Sun, 1961.

Opening from MGM and debutante Belgian director Etienne Perier, introducing Carroll Baker as the author of the underlying memoir, Sean Garrison and Ruth Masters her escorts at a Washington, D.C. reception, and Hawaiian-born James Shigeta as the Japanese-diplomat leading man, in Bridge To The Sun, 1961.

First Japanese diplomat “Terry” Terasaki (James Shigeta) then Tenneseean Gwen (Carroll Baker, as the author of the original book) are called before his boss in Washington, D.C., 1935, recommending against his proposal, later consoled by her aunt (Ruth Masters), in Bridge To The Sun, 1961.

The true story of an American Southerner (Carroll Baker) who marries a Japanese diplomat just before World War II, Bridge To The Sun (1961).