Emperor (2012)

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.
Rating: 6.1
Genres Drama, History, War
Original language: en
Stars
Matthew Fox as General Bonner Fellers
Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas MacArthur
Eriko Hatsune as Aya
Masayoshi Haneda as Emperor Hirohito
Creators
Peter Webber (Director)
Gary Foster (Producer)
Russell Crowe (Producer)
David Klass (Writer)
Shinobu Hashimoto (Writer)
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