Emperor
Effectively combines romance with historical fiction about the question of what to do with Emperor Hirohito after the Japanese surrender in 1945.
Emperor
Matthew Fox (WORLD WAR Z, ALEX CROSS, "Lost") joins with Academy Award-winner Tommy Lee Jones (LINCOLN, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, THE FUGITIVE, HOPE SPRINGS), newcomer Eriko Hatsune and award-winning Japanese star Toshiyuki Nishida (GET UP!, TSURIBAKA NISSHI 14, TSURIBAKA NISSHI 6, GAKKO, DUN-HUANG) to bring to life the American occupation of Japan in the perilous and unpredictable days just after Emperor Hirohito's World War II surrender. As General Douglas MacArthur (Jones) suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation, he assigns an expert in Japanese culture - and psychological warfare - General Bonner Fellers (Fox), to covertly investigate the looming question hanging over the country: should the Japanese Emperor, worshiped by his people but accused of war crimes, be punished or saved? Caught between the high-wire political intrigue of his urgent mission and his own impassioned search for the mysterious school teacher (Hatsune) who first drew him to Japan, Fellers can be certain only that the tricky subterfuge about to play out will forever change the history of two nations and his heart.
Genre
Drama,
History,
War
Web Site
Runtime
106
Language
English
Cast
Matthew Fox,
Kaori Momoi,
Eriko Hatsune
FEATURED REVIEW
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
‘Emperor’ is as close as we’ve gotten this year to a great film — and that is a sentence I never thought I’d write. In cold print, the idea of a movie based on whether or not Emperor Hirohito should be tried and executed as a war criminal at the end of World War II just isn’t that enticing. After ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 3.08.13 - 3.21.13
Claremont 5 3.08.13 - 3.28.13
Playhouse 7 3.08.13 - 4.04.13
Town Center 5 3.08.13 - 4.04.13
Lumiere Music Hall 4.05.13 - 4.11.13
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