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Emperor [Blu-ray]

Matthew Fox (Actor), Tommy Jones (Actor), Peter Webber (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Drama
Format	Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor	Yoko Narahashi, Matthew Fox, Gary Foster, Krasnoff Foster Productions, Kaori Momoi, Eriko Hatsune, Peter Webber, Eugene Nomura, Tommy Jones See more
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 46 minutes

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A gripping tale of love and honor forged between fierce enemies of war, EMPEROR unfolds the story, inspired by true events, of the bold and secret moves that won the peace in the shadows of postwar Japan. The story of EMPEROR is based on the resonant, real events of 1945, when General MacArthur took control of a shell-shocked Japan on behalf of the U.S and Bonner Fellers worked covertly to investigate the Emperor’s fate while the future of the nation hung in the balance. Entwined with an against-the-odds romance, the story traverses the conflicting loyalties between heart and homeland, between revenge and justice, as the world rebuilds from the ruins of war. Matthew Fox joins with Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones, newcomer Eriko Hatsune and award-winning Japanese star Toshiyuki Nishida to bring to life the American occupation of Japan in the perilous and unpredictable days just after Emperor Hirohito’s World War II surrender. As General Douglas MacArthur (Jones) suddenly finds hims

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MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.32 Ounces
Audio Description: ‏ : ‎ English
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 43392
Director ‏ : ‎ Peter Webber
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 46 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ August 13, 2013
Actors ‏ : ‎ Matthew Fox, Tommy Jones, Eriko Hatsune, Kaori Momoi
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
Producers ‏ : ‎ Yoko Narahashi, Eugene Nomura, Gary Foster
Studio ‏ : ‎ Lionsgate
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CZB9BCU
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Engaging historical drama about deciding the fate of the Japanese emperor after WWII

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 7, 2022

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Emperor follows an American army general played by Matthew Fox during the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II. The story has two parts. The major one about General Douglas MacArthur/Tommy Lee Jones running the country and contemplating what to do about the emperor which would determine the future of the occupation and Japan. That effort is led by Fox. The other half is a love story between Fox and Eriko Hatsune who he met in college. I didn’t care about that at all and thankfully it wasn’t a prominent part of the film. The politics led to some good scenes. For example in one Fox confronts the former Japanese Prime Minister accusing Japan of aggression in World War II. He responds that the Japanese took Malaysia from the British. It took the Philippines from the Americans. How did they get those countries? Were they prosecuted as war criminals? He went on to say that Japan just followed the imperialist example set by the West. Other times they show and how destroyed Japan was after the war. There are smoldering husks of buildings in the background in many shots. The last scene where Jones met the Japanese emperor was powerful as well. It made for a very interesting historical drama and how part of modern post-war Asia was formed.

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Yosemite Sam???? As General MacArthur????

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2013

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This movie tells the story of the US Army JAG teams trying to put together the Pacific theater war crimes indictments in the first month after the Japanese surrender. It centers on the Tokyo HQ team investigating the question as whether the Emperor of Japan should be tried for allowing the Imperial General Staff a free hand in the attack at Pearl Harbor and ensuing events during the war. Movie plot centers on two major American characters, US General Fellows leading the inquest team concerning the Emperor; and General Douglas MacArthur micro-managing his work as well as establishing the occupation forces in Japan in the fall of 1945. Success of the Occupation will balance on the situation regarding the Emperor. This is all interesting, and as we have learned since 1945, this was a difficult situation. Script is based on true events and actual people. Interesting...but hardly exciting. We follow flashbacks in the life of General Fellows as he recalls falling in love with a Japanese woman he met in university and again in subsequent pre-war trips to Japan, and as he attempts to find her again in the bombed-out chaos of 1945 Japan.
While the movie is interesting and watchable, the viuewer will have to endure some of the most "unique mis)castings of any movie in a long time! Matthew Fox ( LOST) as a US Army general...hmmm. OK, possible...he's in his early 30s now and there were 23 and 24 year old generals in rare cases. Works as 50% of the love interest...and I sort of suspect he owns a share of the film.. Tommy Lee Jones as General of the Army Douglas MacArthur...now that's a bit of a strech to me.. Imperious, aloof, tall, calculating, Virginia "gentlemanly, were all terms used (among others) to describe MacArthur. Best played on the screen by Gregory Peck in 1977's "MacArthur", becoming a virtual clone to the real guy. Sir Laurence Oliver did Doug once, not too well, in the movie "Inchon". OK, we get Tommy Lee Jones, Arkansas accent and all. Costuming did it's part, the uniform and crushed cap, corn-cob pipe, and all that...on a short guy who looked nothing like the real guy...sorta reminded me of General MacArthur as he would have been played by Yosemite Sam! Best casting was of the beautiful actress who played Aya, the lost love of Fox' character. All Japanese actors were perfectly cast as their actual counterparts in history.
Sets were fine, locations in Japan and rural New Zealand (as parts of rural Japan). Vehicles were spot-on. Even a background Japanese Chi-ha tank. Japanese speak Japanese with English subtitles 90% of the movie. I wish the subtitles would have been used when the Japanese spoke English, as many were so thickly accented it was difficult to understandexcept in context.
I wouls recommend this to a person interested in the history presented. Look not for action nor courtroom stuff...it's what goes on behind the scenes putting an indictment together.

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Interesting film, but too much PC nonsense and historical inaccuracy.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 27, 2013

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Fairly accurate discussion of the period surrounding the Japanese surrender, and the events leading into it. Some felt Hirohito should have been hung, and their arguments are reasonable and valid. Japan never confronted its atrocities during WW2 as did the German people confronted theirs under Hitler, and most young Japanese have no idea of the wretched butchery Japan committed - which has political consequences today as no Japanese leader has truly apologized for what they did in China, for example, leaving the Chinese with constant fury over Japanese behavior against their ancestors (forget for a moment Mao Zedongs' even worse atrocities, as the average Chinese has no idea about that either). The film has a Japanese giving a lecture to an embarrassed American on world history, as if America was "Just as bad" by fully false moral equivalence, as a set up to discuss the atom bombing of Hiroshima and fire-bombing of Tokyo etc., but not a peep about the rapine torture and massacre of 350,000 mostly unarmed Chinese civilians in Nanking by Japanese using Samauri swords and bayonettes, nor the use of Black Plague germ warfare on Chinese regions by Japan as they were withdrawing from, which took another quarter-million lives. Nor the bombing of Manila and brutal rape-slavery of Philippino and Korean women, men being labor slaves or just killed... etc., etc. Or the fanatical savagery of Japanese troops on their captured islands, where surrender was forbidden by Shinto warrior codes, and thereby they abused and tortured surrendered British, Americans and Australians without restraint. Or the Kamakazi attacks, which came too late to end the war in their favor, but made the Americans furious and convinced that any landing of troops to take the Japanese homeland would be a multi-million casualty blood-bath -- which led directly to the decision to use the a-bomb.
Even American youth are not taught these details even as the a-bombs or incindiary raids (which killed far fewer than the two single events in China mentioned above) are emphasized. The film is typical Hollywood left-wing degenerate, though the acting of the various players, and reasonable accuracy of Hirohito trying to cut a deal to surrender before and after the a-bombs has validity, though even that could be made clearer. Factually, Hirohito's agents made a secret outreach to America through the Soviet Embassy, but Americans realized he was not directly in control of the Japanese military, and so could not take his gestures as meaningful -- which in any case always demanded his status as God Emperor be preserved. He was far more involved in the decision-making to start the war, invading China (Manchuria) which was another series of atrocities, as well as continuing the war so long as the outcome favored the "God-Chosen Superior Being" Japanese Empire. As one Japanese MP said (and was shot by an angry associate) "Hirohito was willing to fight to the very last Japanese person, to save his own sorry life as a God".
As to MacArthur, the film might have included a sentence or two about his benign dictatorship, where by declaration he re-organized Japanese society to rid it of feudal slavery. Feudal land-holdings were broken up, with real land distribution to peasant farmers (not like in Communist nations, where such was promised but the Communist Party actually kept all lands and profits for itself). He ended hereditary prostitution and arranged marriages, gave women freedom and established a parlaiment where everyone had equal vote, plus a legal system of independent jurists. The Emperor was forced to renounce his "God" status and go walk among the people, showing he was an ordinary nose-picker like everyone else.
Bottom line: Don't trust Hollywood movies for your history lessons.

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Edgar R Wagner

The potential was definitely there to make a great film. It is about whether or not to ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 24, 2015

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I nearly gave it four stars, but in the end went for three stars. It's OK. The potential was definitely there to make a great film. It is about whether or not to try Emperor Hirohito for war crimes, and, for what it is worth, I think that General MacArthur's decision not to try him was the correct one. Wars will always happen, and this one was going to happen whoever gave the order to start it. The real question that should have been asked, in my opinion, is not whether he countersigned the order for Pearl Harbor, (he almost certainly did), but whether Hirohito was directly responsible for the atrocities committed by Japanese troops, (almost certainly not). Was the superficiality of the arguments and the investigation why this film failed? Probably not.

Interwoven with that is a love story sub-plot. Personally, I suspect that the love story sub-plot was the reason why this film failed to gel. The love story sub-plot as presented in the film raised a lot of questions that simply weren't answered.

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'A WELL STAGED 'WW2' DRAMA'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 26, 2014

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After 'Hiroshima' and 'Nagasaki' August 1945, 'Emperor Hirohito' surrenders.
'General Douglas MacArthur' leads the post-war occupation force with the
task of rebuilding 'Japan'
His orders also include bringing both politicians and military responsible for
the war and atrocities to book, the order also includes proving the 'Emperor'
to be responsible.
The Supreme Commander General MacArthur' instructs 'General Bonner Fellers'
to collect the evidence and investigate the 'Emperor' to see if sufficient grounds
can be found to effect charges against him.
'Bonner Fellers' had been chosen to lead the investigation because of his Knowledge
of 'Japan'
'Bonner' prior to the outbreak of war had romantic links with 'Aya' , now he's back
in 'Japan' he try's to determine whether she'd survived.
The film is based on real-events that took place after the 'Japanese' surrender.
An absorbing and well portrayed account of the investigations into war-crimes after
the surrender.
Good picture and sound quality on the HD format.
(wonder how many allied personnel would have been investigated had the outcome
been reversed.....just a thought.)
Personally, as much as I like this type of drama, war itself is a criminal occurrence in
my view.
Well worth a viewing if you have interest in historical drama

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terrence spencer

I FOUND THIS FILM INTERESTING, NOT KNOWING MUCH AT ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 27, 2015

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I FOUND THIS FILM INTERESTING, NOT KNOWING MUCH AT ALL ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE TAKE OVER OF DEFEATED JAPAN.
WITHIN THE TIME LIMIT IT DID AN O.K JOB.

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John Rattray

Tommy Lee Jones - Great Actor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 22, 2014

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Enjoyed this movie & wondered why Tommy Lee Jones was walking & standing awkwardly & it was only at the end when I saw the actual 'photo that I realised why(therefore well acted)

davana

A good storyline spoiled by too much emphasis on a love ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 29, 2014

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A good storyline spoiled by too much emphasis on a love match between american soldier and japanese girl. Did not see the point of it.

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