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.
Acting
Tommy Lee Jones devours every scene as swaggering MacArthur.
Production
Post-war Japan sets feel lived-in, bombed-out, beautifully sad.
Director
Peter Webber
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
Colin Moy
General Richter
Masatô Ibu
Koichi Kido
Isao Natsuyagi
Teizaburo Sekiya
Takatarô Kataoka
Emperor Hirohito
Aaron Jackson
Lt Col. Rogers
Nic Sampson
Lt. Red
Will Wallace
CIC Commander
Kelson Henderson
Adjutant to MacArthur
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Bonner Fellers was far more hawkish; the film invented his progressive leanings and tragic romance entirely.
Historians still debate whether MacArthur's immunity deal for Hirohito enabled Japan's peaceful post-war transformation or let war criminals off the hook. The film picks a side.
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