Originally broadcast as a mini-series by Showtime in 1995.

Producer, Kazutoshi Wadakura ; screenplay by John Hopkins, Toshiro Ishido ; directors, Roger Spottiswoode, Koreyoshi Kurahara. Directors of photography, Pierre Mignot, Shohei Ando ; camera operator, Norio Teranuma ; editors, Denis Papillon, Dominique Fortin, John Soh ; creative consultant, Matthew Asner ; military consultant (Canadian crew), Gilbert Drolet ; military advisor (Japanese crew), Shunsuke Takasugi ; Japanese translator, Kiyoko Okumura.

Wesley Addy, David Gow, Hisashi Igawa, Ken Jenkins, Sheena Larkin, Richard D. Masur, Tatsuo Matsumura, Jeffrey De Munn, Leon Pownall, Gary Reineke, George Robertson, Saul Rubinek, Kei Sato, Kohji Takahashi, Naohiko Umewaka, Timothy West, Kenneth Welsh.

The story of the final months of World War II. While war rages in the Pacific, newly installed President Truman and his chiefs of staff wrestle with the unprecedented moral question of whether to drop the atomic bomb, and Emperor Hirohito and his proud Samurai generals face the moral dilemma of whether to surrender or fight on to the end.

Rated PG.

DVD.

11/06