Emperor (2012)

★ 6.1 1h 45m 277 votes IMDb
Drama War History

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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Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox as General Bonner Fellers Age 59 · Abington, Pennsylvania, USA Matthew Chandler Fox (born July 14, 1966) is an American actor and former model. His first major role was playing older brother and family patriarch Charlie Salinger on Party of Five in the 1990s, co-...
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas MacArthur Age 79 · San Saba, Texas, USA Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samu...
Eriko Hatsune
Eriko Hatsune as Aya Shimada Age 44 · Tokyo, Japan Eriko Hatsune (初音映莉子, Hatsune Eriko) is a Japanese actress. Her career began in 1998 when she appeared in several television commercials. At 18, she played the female lead in the 2000 film Uzumaki and...
Masayoshi Haneda
Masayoshi Haneda as Takahashi Age 49 · Tokyo, Japan Masayoshi Haneda (羽田昌義, Haneda Masayoshi, born November 13, 1976) is a Japanese film and stage actor. He is best known for the role as Tanaka in the Westworld series..
Kaori Momoi
Kaori Momoi as Mitsuko Kajima Age 74 · Tokyo, Japan Kaori Momoi  (桃井 かおり, Momoi Kaori, born April 8, 1952 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress. Momoi was born in Tokyo, and at the young age of 12 traveled to London to study dance at the Royal Ballet...
Toshiyuki Nishida
Toshiyuki Nishida as General Kajima Died 2024 · Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan Toshiyuki Nishida (西田 敏行, Nishida Toshiyuki, born November 4, 1947, died October 17, 2024) was a Japanese actor. He has won two Japanese Academy Awards for best actor, for The Silk Road (1988) and Tsu...
Director Peter Webber
Cast Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune, Masayoshi Haneda, Kaori Momoi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Colin Moy, Masatô Ibu, Isao Natsuyagi, Takatarô Kataoka

Audience 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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