Emperor

Release Date: 2012-09-14

Rating: ⭐ 6.133/10 (264 votes)

Genres: Drama, History, War

Overview: 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.

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

🎭 Top Cast

Matthew Fox

as General Bonner Fellers

Tommy Lee Jones

as General Douglas MacArthur

Eriko Hatsune

as Aya Shimada

Masayoshi Haneda

as Takahashi

Kaori Momoi

as Mitsuko Kajima

Toshiyuki Nishida

as General Kajima

📝 User Reviews

TomStensson

Jun 08, 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/> Unfortunately, the story misses many opportunities to more deeply explore cultural differences and moral dilemmas, and instead is filled with several distracting short scenes and sidelines that confuse rather than enlighten.<br/> It could have been a great film, but now it's just decent.

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