Emperor (Blu-ray) PG-13
After the war was won, the battle for peace began.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 13, 2013
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Matthew Fox & Tommy Lee Jones | |
| Performer: | Eriko Hatsune, Toshiyuki Nishida & Kaori Momoi | |
| Directed by | Peter Webber | |
| Edited by | Chris Plummer | |
| Screenplay by | David Klass & Vera Blasi | |
| Composition by | Alex Heffes | |
| Cinematography by | Stuart Dryburgh |
Entertainment Reviews:
32%
45%
Emperor isn't a slow film, but it takes its time, focusing more on the nuance of the investigation and the deconstruction of its social message instead of pushing for high drama.
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
While this sounds like a deliriously ripe scenario for intrigue and melodrama, Webber's film contains neither, instead deciding to saddle it with a deadening war time romance.
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IONCINEMA.com
[Jones] makes sure this old soldier will never die in our memory.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 1/5 --
Emperor is ultimately let down by the uninspiring plot and mostly weak performances.
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Flick Feast
Rating: 2/5 --
Emperor is dutiful, patient and almost entirely without flair.
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Guardian
Rating: 4/5 --
Imagine if POTUS was considered by U.S. citizenry to be a living god. Japanese emperors were. Does one then hang a living god as a war criminal? A riveting period portrayal.
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Epoch Times
3 stars out of 4 -- EMPEROR is expertly photographed, whether we're following Fellers through the blue-tinged rubble of a bombed-out village or flashing back to the pastel-colored romance in the States.
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
With the entire globe still in shock following World War II, U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) and his aide Gen. Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) arrive in a devastated Japan on a sensitive mission to determine whether beloved Japanese emperor Hirohito should be tried and executed for war crimes in this historical drama from director Peter Webber (GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, HANNIBAL RISING). During his investigation, Gen. Fellers experiences an emotional reunion with his long-lost lover Aya (Eriko Hatsune), a former Japanese exchange student who taught him about her nation's culture and customs. When Aya goes missing over the course of his inquiry, he embarks on an arduous quest to find her that not only opens his eyes to the destruction that has befallen the once-proud country, but also helps to inform the monumental decision he must make.
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