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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and raw.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Matthew FoxGeneral Bonner Fellers
- Tommy Lee JonesGeneral Douglas MacArthur
- Eriko HatsuneAya Shimada
- Masayoshi HanedaTakahashi
- Kaori MomoiMitsuko Kajima
- Toshiyuki NishidaGeneral Kajima
- Colin MoyGeneral Richter
- Masatô IbuKoichi Kido
- Isao NatsuyagiTeizaburo Sekiya
- Takatarô KataokaEmperor Hirohito
Crew
- Peter WebberDirector
- David KlassScreenplay
- Vera BlasiScreenplay
- Stuart DryburghDirector of Photography
- Alex HeffesOriginal Music Composer
- Yoko NarahashiProducer
- Eugene NomuraProducer
- Gary FosterProducer
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