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  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.

  
  

  Full Synopsis Spoiler Alert!

  Rating: 6.1

  Genres Drama, History, War

  Original language: en

  IMDb tt2103264

  Stars

  Matthew Fox as General Bonner Fellers

  Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas MacArthur

  Eriko Hatsune as Aya

  Masayoshi Haneda as Emperor Hirohito

  Creators

  Peter Webber (Director)

  Gary Foster (Producer)

  Russell Crowe (Producer)

  David Klass (Writer)

  Shinobu Hashimoto (Writer)

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