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6.2As 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.
Released: 2012-09-14105 minDir: Peter WebberDrama, History, WarBox office: $14.9M
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
Themes
- atomic bomb
- emperor
- based on true story
- japanese surrender
- us military
- 1940s
- general douglas macarthur
- hirohito
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Ratings
IMDb
6.5/10
15,430 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
31%
Metacritic
48/100
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- World War II
- Director
- Peter Webber
- Screenwriter
- David Klass
- Cast member
- Aaron Jackson
- Composer
- Alex Heffes
- Cinematographer
- Stuart Dryburgh
- Narrative location
- Japan
- Filming location
- Japan
- Duration
- 102
- FilmAffinity ID
- 899587
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- emperor-themovie.com
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- publication date
- 2013-09-26
- title
- Emperor
- production designer
- Grant Major
- costume designer
- Ngila Dickson
- set in period
- 1945
- review score
- 48/100
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