

Emperor
After the war was won, the battle for peace began.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $14.9M
- Language
- English
- atomic bomb
- emperor
- based on true story
- japanese surrender
- us military
- 1940s
- general douglas macarthur
- hirohito
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Japan, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-138 Mar 2013
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A4 Oct 2013
AustraliaAU
- PhysicalMDVD25 Jun 2013
CanadaCA
- TheatricalPG14 Sept 2012
BahrainBH
- Theatrical25 Apr 2013
BrazilBR
- Theatrical148 Mar 2013
GermanyDE
- Theatrical168 Oct 2013
GreeceGR
- TheatricalΚ14 Nov 2013
- PhysicalDVD28 Mar 2014
HungaryHU
- Digital / OTT1210 Oct 2013
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT124 Oct 2013
ItalyIT
- Theatrical10 Oct 2013
JapanJP
- TheatricalG27 Jul 2013
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Emperor was released on 14 September 2012.
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TomStensson
6/8/2013
An ambitious attempt to describe a very important problem facing MacArthur when he became Supreme Commander over Japan: should he drag the emperor to a war crime tribunal in order to appease politicians back home in the US who felt that the voters wanted it, or should he be more concerned about restoring Japan as quickly as possible to ensure that communism didn't get a foothold there?<br/> Unfortunately, the story m…
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