Emperor (2012)
"After the war was won, the battle for peace began."
ThumbScore
👍 67%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 40%
(RT: 32%, MC: 48) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Eriko Hatsune as Aya Shimada
Masayoshi Haneda as Takahashi
Toshiyuki Nishida as General Kajima
Colin Moy as General Richter
Masatô Ibu as Koichi Kido
Is Emperor good?
It's divisive. 67% audience score, estimated from 291 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 40%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
