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.

Matthew Fox
as General Bonner Fellers

Tommy Lee Jones
as General Douglas MacArthur

Eriko Hatsune
as Aya Shimada

Masayoshi Haneda
as Takahashi

Kaori Momoi
as Mitsuko Kajima

Toshiyuki Nishida
as General Kajima

Colin Moy
as General Richter

Masatô Ibu
as Koichi Kido

Isao Natsuyagi
as Teizaburo Sekiya

Takatarô Kataoka
as Emperor Hirohito
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 rest...