Film
Emperor
2012 · 1h 45m · Drama · History · War
After the war was won, the battle for peace began.
- IMDb
- 6.5
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 31%
- Metacritic
- 48
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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.
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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
Aaron Jackson
Lt Col. Rogers
Nic Sampson
Lt. Red
Will Wallace
CIC Commander
Kelson Henderson
Adjutant to MacArthur
Takanori Higuchi
Head Palace Guard
Shōhei Hino
Hideki Tojo
Crew
- Peter WebberDirector
- David KlassScreenplay
- Vera BlasiScreenplay
- Yoko NarahashiProducer · Casting
- Eugene NomuraProducer
- Gary FosterProducer
- Russ KrasnoffProducer
- Stuart DryburghDirector of Photography
- Alex HeffesOriginal Music Composer
- Jane JenkinsCasting
Media
Details
- Release date
- September 14, 2012
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Revenue
- $14,858,240
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
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