
The Sun(2005)
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.


“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.

Matthew Fox
General Bonner Fellers

Tommy Lee Jones
General Douglas MacArthur

Eriko Hatsune
Aya Shimada

Masayoshi Haneda
Takahashi

Kaori Momoi
Mitsuko Kajima

Toshiyuki Nishida
General Kajima

Colin Moy
General Richter

Masatô Ibu
Koichi Kido

Isao Natsuyagi
Teizaburo Sekiya

Takatarô Kataoka
Emperor Hirohito
Emperor is a drama, history, war film released in 2012 exploring themes of atomic bomb, emperor, based on true story, japanese surrender, us military, 1940s. Directed by Peter Webber, it stars Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune. 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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