Emperor (2012)
After the war was won, the battle for peace began.
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.
- Date of release
- 2012-09-14
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (291)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Director
- Peter Webber
Casting
- 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
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