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Overall Rank: 4601
Average Rating: 2.8/4
# of Ratings: 16
Theatrical Release Date: 03/08/2013
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 08/13/2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Webber
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Matthew Fox, Kaori Momoi, Aaron Jackson, Eriko Hatsune, Toshiyuki Nishida
Plot: As WWII draws to a close, General Bonner Fellers is charged with deciding whether Japanese Emperor Hirohito will be hanged for war crimes. Even as the decision weighs heavy in his mind, he searches for Aya, an exchange student from his past. -- Chris Kavan
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Emperor
lastonetoleave - wrote on 03/24/2013
Emperor (2013) World War II has ended, and General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) has landed on Japan soil. Emperor Hirohito may now be charged as a war criminal. MacArthur has picked General Fellers (Matthew Fox) to investigate and decide if the Emperor is to be put on trial; a trial that could destroy a country. The film centers on two stories: the investigation into if the Emperor ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor and the love story set in the past between Fellers (Fox) and a Japanese girl named Aya (Eriko Hatsune) whom he meets while both are in college in the states. Fellers sets about trying to put together who made the decisions to attack the US but is hampered by the fact that Japan is in total disarray due to the war, and under the gun to find evidence in ten days …
