Based on the true story of Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised by a Japanese-American foster family, comes a powerful and poignant film about heroism and sacrifice during World War II. After Pearl Harbor, Gabaldon's foster family is interned at Manzanar camp, while he enlists in the Marines, leveraging his fluency in Japanese to become a vital asset. On the island of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese soldiers to surrender after their general commits suicide, earning him recognition as a Marine hero.
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