Emperor (2012) on Netflix
General Bonner Fellers arrives in Japan with the Allied occupation force to arrest war criminals. He must decide whether Emperor Hirohito should be tried, and he searches for Aya Shimada.
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Plot summary
In the days after the Japanese surrender, General Douglas MacArthur keeps Emperor Hirohito out of war crimes trials so that Japan does not rise against the occupation, though many Americans want the Emperor to answer for the war. MacArthur orders Brigadier General Bonner Fellers, a Japan expert on his staff, to spend ten days investigating Hirohito and to report on what the occupation force should do. Fellers and his staff question the officials who advised the Emperor when the war began. He also sends Takahashi, his interpreter and driver, to look for Aya Shimada, a Japanese woman he knew in the United States. Fellers remembers his 1940 visit to Tokyo, when he saw Aya again; she had returned to Japan after her father died.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Emperor (2012)
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- Scenes for Emperor were shot on location at RNZAF Base Whenuapai in New Zealand, and some Air Force personnel were used as extras in the film.
