Emperor (2012) (original) (raw)

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, General Douglas MacArthur assigns the task of investigating whether Emperor Hirohito should be hanged as a war criminal to a younger staff General Bonner Fellers. Influencing his recommendation is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S. All this must be done within ten days when MacArthur must decide on the Emperor's fate!

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, General Douglas MacArthur assigns the task of investigating whether Emperor Hirohito should be hanged as a war criminal to a younger staff General Bonner Fellers. Influencing his recommendation is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S. All this must be done within ten days when MacArthur must decide on the Emperor's fate! (less)

Director: Peter Webber
Writers: Vera Blasi, David Klass
Starring: Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masayoshi Haneda, Takatar� Kataoka
Producers: Gary Foster, Russ Krasnoff, Eugene Nomura

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Review by Brian Orndorf, March 7, 2013

4 / 10

Many films dramatize the aftermath of World War II, but few have tackled the immediate steps of research after combat has ceased. There�s a novelty to �Emperor� that makes it inviting, investigating conversations concerning the reconstruction of Japan mere days after atomic bombs were dropped in 1945. An historical treatment seems to be a perfectly acceptable route for the production to take, yet �Emperor� is concerned that hardened men talking procedural events won�t make much of a movie, so a romantic subplot is introduced, trying to humanize the enormity of war. It�s an unnecessary addition ...read more...

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