The second movie this year (after ) to begin with an atomic strike on Japan, Peter Webber's post-WW2 yarn finds Tommy Lee Jones' General MacArthur in the horns of a dilemma. Should Emperor Hirohito hang for Pearl Harbor or be kept alive a♛s the figurehead of an unoccupied puppet state?

It's left to Japan expert General Feller (Matthew Fox) to advise the best course of action,🐷 a mission complicated by his pre-war roma🌞nce with an exotic teacher (Eriko Hatsune).

Fun when Jones is around, dull when he's not, it's all just a little bit of history repeati⛄ng.