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Emperor (2012)
Directed by Peter Webber
“After the war was won, the battle for peace began.”
Drama, History, War · 1h 45m
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.
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
Crew
- Director
- Peter Webber
- Screenplay
- Vera Blasi, David Klass
- Director of Photography
- Stuart Dryburgh
- Original Music Composer
- Alex Heffes
- Producer
- Yoko Narahashi, Gary Foster, Eugene Nomura, Russ Krasnoff
Details
- Release date
- 2012-09-14
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Japanese
- Countries
- Japan, United States of America
- Production
- Fellers Film, Krasnoff / Foster Entertainment, United Performers' Studio
- Box office
- $14,858,240