Emperor

March. 08,2013      PG-13
Rating:
6.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Matthew Fox as  General Bonner Fellers
Tommy Lee Jones as  General Douglas MacArthur
Eriko Hatsune as  Aya Shimada
Masayoshi Haneda as  Takahashi
Kaori Momoi as  Mitsuko Kajima
Toshiyuki Nishida as  General Kajima
Colin Moy as  General Richter
Masatō Ibu as  Koichi Kido
Isao Natsuyagi as  Teizaburo Sekiya
Takatarô Kataoka as  Emperor Hirohito

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