
MacArthur's Children
"On an island in the Pacific, in a world about to change..."
Synopsis
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.
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