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Emperor

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

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Matthew Fox (WORLD WAR Z, I, ALEX CROSS, "Lost") joins with Academy Award(R) winner Tommy Lee Jones (LINCOLN, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, THE FUGITIVE, HOPE SPRINGS), 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 himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation, he assigns an expert in Japanese culture - and psychological warfare - General Bonner Fellers (Fox), to covertly investigate the looming question hanging over the country: should the Japanese Emperor, worshiped by his people but accused of war crimes, be punished or saved? Caught between the high-wire political intrigue of his urgent mission and his own impassioned search for the mysterious school teacher (Hatsune) who first drew him to Japan, Fellers can be certain only that the tricky subterfuge about to play out will forever change the history of two nations and his heart.

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Actors: Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones
Directors: Peter Webber
Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
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Parents Strongly Cautioned
Studio: Lionsgate
DVD Release Date: August 13, 2013
Run Time: 106 minutes
Average Customer Review: 1,895 customer reviews
ASIN: B00CZB9BE8
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,641 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Great historical war drama

ByPaul AllaerTOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICEon May 31, 2013

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"Emperor" (2013 release; 98 min.) brings the true story of how General/Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces MacArthur (played here by Tommy Lee Jones) was sent to Japan following Japan's surrender to end WWII, to assess which top ranking officials from Japan, including possibly Emperor Hirohito, should be brought to justice and stand trial. MacArthur enlistens the help of General Fellers (played by Matthew Fox) for the actual investigations, focusing on the Emperor, the Prime Minister and a few other top Ministers. The problem is that Washington demands a conclusion in only 10 days. The movie's script (based on the book 'His Majesty's Salvation' by Shiro Okamoto) intertwines the political and military aspects with a romantic involvement by Fellers with a Japanese woman whom he gets to know in the 1930s in the US, but who eventually returns to Japan without telling Fellers. Fellers is determined to find her now that he is back in Japan. Will Fellers find his former flame? Will Fellers and MacArthur conclude that the Emperor of Japan must stand trial? To tell you more would ruin your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.

Several thoughts: director Peter Webber (best known for directing "Girl With a Pearl Earring") does a nice job in bringing the necessary historical background and further perspective, so as to appreciate the task at hand for Fellers and MacArthur. Even though Tokyo was not hit by the atomic bomb, it nevertheless was severely shelled and bombed, and we get a glimpse of what that must've felt like. Tommy Lee Jones does the most with the choice role of MacArthur, including adding some much needed occasional humor. The meeting between MacArthur and the Emperor towards the movie's end is by far THE highlight of the movie. Kudo also to Alex Heffes for scoring a beautiful soundtrack for this movie. Last but not least, at the very end of the movie, we get to see several still pictures of the actual events, which really add to the poignancy of the movie.

The screening I saw this at in my local art-house theatre here in Cincinnati a few months ago was (to my surprise) very well attended and tilting heavily towards the seniors, so this movie might have some legs on DVD (it played quite some weeks in the theatre), not unlike that other recent historical movie "Hyde Park on Hudson". Bottom line: if you like historical drama, you will be well served by "Emperor".

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UNDERSTANDING HISTORY

ByJoan E.on September 15, 2017

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My dad was in the Navy in the Pacific during WWII. He spent a lot of time after the war in Japan. I was very much interested in the aftermath of the surrender for the Japanese people. This movie explained a lot without being obviously prejudiced toward the Americans and/or against the Japanese. The decision reached regarding the Emperor was difficult and was handled with great respect. I thought the movie was compelling.

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Tommy Lee Jones is fun, and the movie is worth watching

ByAmazon Customeron May 15, 2015

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Tommy Lee Jones is fun, and the movie is worth watching.
The problem of what to do with the emperor has to be explained through dialog, and great gnashing of teeth, and an attempted comparison of Japanese imperialism with that of Britain and the US. It did leave you with the uncertainty over the role of the Emperor Hirohito in waging war. Was he really in charge, or was he a virtual captive of the "militarists"?
At the end they have an inaccurate graphic that says General Eisenhower demoted General Fellers afterward. This was not the case. During the Civil War and WWI and WWII US officers were promoted quickly up to temporarily higher ranks as the military expanded, and then they reverted back to their regular, lower rank after the war as the military was reduced in size. And so General Fellers went back to a regular rank of colonel. As, for example, General Custer was promoted up to major general during the Civil War, and was reduced back to captain after the war, and eventually died 11 years later at the rank of lieutenant colonel.

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Emperor---Its is a MUST for World War II History Buffs

ByHoward Dunbaron June 13, 2015

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I am a history buff and therefore I found this movie (it is a true story but not all about MacArthur---its more about a member of his staff) to be full of great details. The movie opens with the Enola Gay taking off to drop the first Atom Bomb on Japan. Next it moves to the palace revolt which was driven by those in the Japanese government who still wanted to continue the war even with the prospect that the United States would continue dropping Atomic bombs. That thought brought the Emperor who had the last say to call for the surrender. Tommy Lee Jones plays Gen MacArthur very well as you would expect. The other main character is Gen Bonner Fellers (played by Matthew Fox) who was a career US Army officer who had a love affair in Japan before World War II with a beautiful Japanese lady. Besides tracking down the Japanese responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor and war criminals for prosecution, Fellers privately looks for the girl he loved as a sidebar to the history track. I don't know if that was factual but it adds a bit of romance to the history narrative. As to the destruction of Japan, the movie has some very good CG imposed in which miles and miles of bombed rubble of Tokyo is shown as the backdrop in many scenes. My view is that adds a bit much sympathy to the film for the Japanese people who not only attacked Pearl Harbor killing several thousand US military and Hawaiian civilians, the Japanese were most brutal to every people that they attacked. For example they killed millions of Chinese -- in Nanking alone there were 350,000 people killed by the Japanese army. The movie does not leave the impression that one should feel sorry for the Japanese but does not cover in detail the war crimes which they committed.

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