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Emperor

After the war was won, the battle for peace began.

2012 · PG-13 · 1h 45m

Directed by Peter Webber

6.2

TMDB audience score
291 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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