Emperor

2012 105 min ★ 6.2 Drama, History, War

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.

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Cast

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

Details

Director

Peter Webber

Screenplay

Vera Blasi

Tagline

"After the war was won, the battle for peace began."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Revenue

$14,858,240

Production

Fellers Film, Krasnoff / Foster Entertainment, United Performers' Studio

Reviews

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TomStensson

June 8, 2013

An ambitious attempt to describe a very important problem facing MacArthur when he became Supreme Commander over Japan: should he drag the emperor to a war crime tribunal in order to appease politicians back home in the US who felt that the voters wanted it, or should he be more concerned about restoring Japan as quickly as possible to ensure that communism didn't get a foothold there?<br/> Unfort...