
Emperor
6.1/10
Rating
105 min
Runtime
2012
Release Year
Peter Webber
Director
Cast
Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune, Masayoshi Haneda, Kaori Momoi
Quick Synopsis
At the end of World War II, when Japan surrenders, General Fellers is assigned the difficult job of determining whether Emperor Hirohito should be tried and executed as a war criminal. While carrying out this responsibility, Fellers is also personally motivated by his search for Aya, a Japanese exchange student he had met years before while in the United States, which affects his perspective on the situation.
Detailed Synopsis of Emperor
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.



