Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Japan, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- atomic bomb
- emperor
- based on true story
- japanese surrender
- us military
- 1940s
- general douglas macarthur
- hirohito
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Takanori Higuchi — Head Palace Guard
- Directed
- Peter Webber
- Written
- Vera Blasi, David Klass
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 289 ratings
- Studio
- Fellers Film, Krasnoff / Foster Entertainment, United Performers' Studio
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
