A version of the track "Jim's New Life," performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra, was included on the 1995 album Williams on Williams: The Classic Spielberg Scores. A Boston Pops Orchestra version of "Cadillac of the Skies" is on Disc One of the 1999 double album John Williams Greatest Hits 1969–1999.
A limited edition, two-disc edition of the Empire of the Sun soundtrack, produced and remastered by Mike Matessino, was released by La-La Land Records in 2014. This edition of the soundtrack runs twice as long as the original album. The first disc contains a full presentation of the film score (in chronological order, and including never-before-released music), and the second disc features a selection of alternate cues and other additional music.
"The Streets of Shanghai" (film version segment)* 1:18
"The Streets of Shanghai" (alternate segment)* 2:17
"Chopin Again"* 1:19
"The Plane" (alternate)* 3:05
"Cadillac of the Skies" (alternate)* 3:51
"The Return to the City" (alternate)* 7:50
"Exsultate Justi" (album version) 5:09
(*) Previously unreleased, (**) contains previously unreleased music
Tracks from the original album not present on the expanded version are "Toy Planes, Home and Hearth" (included as the separate cues "The Plane" and "Home and Hearth") and "No Road Home/Seeing the Bomb" (included as the separate cues "Trip Through the Crowd" and "Seeing the Bomb").