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An ambitious attempt to describe a very important problem facing MacArthur when he became Supreme Commander over Japan: should he drag the emperor to a war crime tribunal in order to appease politicians back home in the US who felt that the voters wanted it, or should he be more concerned about restoring Japan as quickly as possible to ensure that communism didn't get a foothold there? Unfortunately, the story misses many opportunities to more deeply explore cultural differences and moral dilemmas, and instead is filled with several distracting short scenes and sidelines that confuse rathe... read the rest.
Emperor
(2012)
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.
Tagline
After the war was won, the battle for peace began.
Crew
| Director: | Peter Webber |
| Writers: | Vera Blasi, David Klass |
Cast
Matthew Fox 
Tommy Lee Jones 
Eriko Hatsune 
Masayoshi Haneda |
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Production Companies
Krasnoff Foster Productions, United Performers' Studio, Fellers Film
