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By Laurie A (151) on 11 Oct 2018

I can't believe how permissive the Americans were after all the atrocities the Japs did…

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By Josh Terry (603) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 29 Nov 2017

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…

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By James Z (387) on 03 Aug 2017

Matthew Fox restrains himself and nails the role of General Bonnet Fellers, the key figure in deciding how a victorious US will proceed after…

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By Mark Jackson (231) for Epoch Times (337) on 19 Jun 2016

Imagine if POTUS was considered by U.S. citizenry to be a living god. Japanese emperors were…

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By Jay M (484) on 04 Feb 2016

I thought this was a fairly decent drama set after the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War as General MacArthur tasks one…

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By Cameron M (686) on 05 Dec 2015

This is not a movie about war, but a movie about making peace…

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By Joshua S (854) on 16 Aug 2015

Emperor fails to deliver and tell the story of an important historical event…

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By Joseph B (617) on 02 Aug 2015

Emperor is one huge disappointment that fails to stay true to the plot and spends more time telling some other story in endless flashbacks…

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By Michael K (2,029) on 20 Dec 2014

An excellent well casted movie. A great story that teaches you something along the way…

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By David W (2,010) on 06 Oct 2014

Talk about your horrible movies. I can totally see this being presented in US classrooms to be passed off as revisionist history…

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By Ryan M (2,675) on 17 Sep 2014

Interesting factual with artistic licence film where the yanks go in search of Hirohito to try to bring him to trial for war crimes…

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By Brendan R (232) on 09 Sep 2014

It seemed a cookie cutter crime drama expanded into a movie and then set in historical Japan…

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By Nathan P (282) on 07 Sep 2014

A solid performance from Matthew Fox as General Bonner Fellers, the US Army intelligence officer serving as attache to General Douglas Macarthur…

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By Foong M (67) on 11 Jul 2014

It's passable as a made for TV drama, complete with a feel good ending…

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By Angelo Dean B (147) on 30 Jun 2014

This movie was not at all what I expected it to be. I was pleasantly surprised…

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By Andrew S (3,174) on 17 Jun 2014

Emperor follows the events directly after the Second World War and the subsequent hunt and trials for war crimes during the war…

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By Tristan M (504) on 25 May 2014

This wouldn't be the first historical film to play fast and furious with the personal detail of lives of the main historical figures…

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By Smitty S (17) on 25 May 2014

This wouldn't be the first historical film to play fast and furious with the personal detail of lives of the main historical figures…

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By Olli H (283) on 23 May 2014

Slow and understated, great photography. The movie only comes together at the end…

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By Todd B (417) on 21 Apr 2014

Historically very accurate and extremely well acted…

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