After the war was won, the battle for peace began.
Director: Peter Webber
Producer: Yōko Narahashi, Gary Foster, Eugene Nomura, Russ Krasnoff
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.
105 min
Rating: 6.112/10
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Matthew Fox
General Bonner Fellers
Tommy Lee Jones
General Douglas MacArthur
Eriko Hatsune
Aya Shimada
Masayoshi Haneda
Takahashi
Kaori Momoi
Mitsuko Kajima
Toshiyuki Nishida
General Kajima
Movie Info
Director: Peter Webber
Producer: Yōko Narahashi, Gary Foster, Eugene Nomura, Russ Krasnoff
Production Companies: Fellers Film, Krasnoff / Foster Entertainment, United Performers' Studio
Countries: Japan, United States of America
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TomStensson:
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?<br/> 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.<br/>
It could have been a great film, but now it's just decent.