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6.1/10 • 253

2012-09-141h 45m

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After the war was won, the battle for peace began.

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Directors
Peter Webber

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Matthew Fox

    Matthew Fox

    General Bonner Fellers

  2. Tommy Lee Jones

    Tommy Lee Jones

    General Douglas MacArthur

  3. Eriko Hatsune

    Eriko Hatsune

    Aya Shimada

  4. Masayoshi Haneda

    Masayoshi Haneda

    Takahashi

  5. Kaori Momoi

    Kaori Momoi

    Mitsuko Kajima

  6. Toshiyuki Nishida

    Toshiyuki Nishida

    General Kajima

  7. Colin Moy

    Colin Moy

    General Richter

  8. Masatô Ibu

    Masatô Ibu

    Koichi Kido

  9. Isao Natsuyagi

    Isao Natsuyagi

    Teizaburo Sekiya

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TomStensson

Jun 8, 2013

An ambitious attempt to describe a very important problem facing MacArthur when he became Supreme Commander over Japan: should he drag the emperor to a war crime tribunal in order to appease politicians back home in the US who felt that the voters wanted it, or should he be more concerned about restoring Japan as quickly as possible to ensure that communism didn't get a foothold there?
Unfortunately, the story misses many opportunities to more deeply explore cultural differences and moral dilemmas, and instead is filled with several distracting short scenes and sidelines that confuse rather than enlighten.
It could have been a great film, but now it's just decent.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
--
Revenue
$14,858,240.00
Keywords
atomic bombemperorjapanese surrenderus military1940sgeneral douglas macarthurhirohito