Movie
Emperor
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2012-09-14
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Fellers Film, Krasnoff / Foster Entertainment, United Performers' Studio
- Country
- Japan, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Matthew Fox as General Bonner Fellers
- Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas MacArthur
- Eriko Hatsune as Aya Shimada
- Masayoshi Haneda as Takahashi
- Kaori Momoi as Mitsuko Kajima
- Toshiyuki Nishida as General Kajima
- Colin Moy as General Richter
- Masatô Ibu as Koichi Kido
- Isao Natsuyagi as Teizaburo Sekiya
- Takatarô Kataoka as Emperor Hirohito
- Aaron Jackson as Lt Col. Rogers
- Nic Sampson as Lt. Red
Crew
- Peter Webber - Director
- Vera Blasi - Screenplay
- David Klass - Screenplay
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