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Emperor

  • 6.5 /10

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  • 31%

Plot

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.

Cast

Matthew Fox as General Bonner Fellers
Matthew Fox

as General Bonner Fellers

Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas MacArthur
Tommy Lee Jones

as General Douglas MacArthur

Eriko Hatsune as Aya Shimada
Eriko Hatsune

as Aya Shimada

Masayoshi Haneda as Takahashi
Masayoshi Haneda

as Takahashi

Kaori Momoi as Mitsuko Kajima
Kaori Momoi

as Mitsuko Kajima

Toshiyuki Nishida as General Kajima
Toshiyuki Nishida

as General Kajima

Colin Moy as General Richter
Colin Moy

as General Richter

Masatô Ibu as Koichi Kido
Masatô Ibu

as Koichi Kido

Isao Natsuyagi as Teizaburo Sekiya
Isao Natsuyagi

as Teizaburo Sekiya

Takatarô Kataoka as Emperor Hirohito
Takatarô Kataoka

as Emperor Hirohito

Movie Facts

Rated

  • PG-13

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • September 14, 2012

Production Companies

  • Fellers Film

  • Krasnoff / Foster Entertainment

  • United Performers' Studio

Production Countries

  • Japan

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

  • 日本語

Budget

  • $0.00

Revenue

  • $14,858,240.00

Runtime

  • 1.75 hrs

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Reviews

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?
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