Director
Peter Webber
Producer
Gary Foster, Russ Krasnoff, Yôko Narahashi & Eugene Nomura
Writer(s)
Shiro Okamoto (book)
Vera Blasi
David Klass
Genre
War | History | Drama
Cast
Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas MacArthur
Matthew Fox as General Bonner Fellers
Eriko Hatsune as Aya Shimada
Kaori Momoi as Mitsuko Kajima
William Wallace as CIC Commander
Toshiyuki Nishida as General Kajima
Takatarô Kataoka as Emperor
Aaron Jackson as Lt Col. Rogers
Distributed by
Lionsgate
Release Date
Mar 8, 2013
Locations
Tokyo, Japan & New Zealand
Language
English
Movie Description(Click Here To Hide)
A historical war drama directed by Peter Webber starring Tommy Lee Jones & Matthew Fox in the lead roles. As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers (Fox) is tasked with deciding whether or not Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya (Eriko Hatsune), an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
Leonard Maltin Reviews "Emperor"
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Leonard Maltin takes a closer look at "Emperor."
