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It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

and the truth has so many nuances ! a film who impress . for the contact between stories. for the manner to make history, justice and the most delicate decisions. for the grace of an old culture and for the contact of it with a new one. for the scenes who describes the war after the peace. for the crumbs of tradition who preserves the essence of a nation in very difficult times. for a form of beauty who gives to love force and vulnerability. for the dialogs. and for the definition of the truth as work at a large, obscure puzzle. not a great movie. only a wise one. in many moments, a form of historical documentary. in other- a show of high performances. in fact, support for reflection. about the justice. and about the value of the truth.

Emperor mixes fact with fiction and introduces a clichéd love story subplot which detracts from the film.The film follows US Army Brigadier General Bonner Frank Fellers (Matthew Fox) who spent time in Japan before the outbreak of the war and ordered by General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) to decide whether Emperor Hirohito regarded as a living god by the Japanese should be tried and hung as a war criminal. In the mean time the US Forces are rounding up the guilty men who were in power in Japan when it allied itself with the Germans.Mixed with this interesting aspect of the plot is a dull romance angle of trying to find a Japanese student he fell in love with in a messed up post war Japan which has just been nuked.The machinations and politicking regarding whether the Emperor should be tried is fascinating and helped by a broad, brash performance by Lee Jones.Matthew Fox though is rather hindered by the script which fails to make his character interesting because of the fictionalized part of the story. The subplot introduces characters in flashbacks that explains why Japan is the country it is to help us understand why it did what it did in the war.It is a shame that the film dilutes a momentous story to make it rather anodyne.

When I came upon this on Netflix, I figured it was just an another bio about MacArthur, but being a fan of Tommie Lee Jones I thought I'd give it a shot. I was pleasantly surprised that instead of this being focused on the General, it was about the US Army's occupation of Japan, just less than a month after the atomic bombs dropped on the island convinced Hirohito to order his militarists to capitulate before facing complete destruction. MacArthur and the Army have a difficult situation, they are occupying and enforcing martial law with a relatively small force, on the home island of our foe, whose population had been very willing to fight to the death rather than surrender just a few weeks earlier. He also has the responsibility of rounding up and bringing Japan's war criminals to trial and he assigns Brigadier General Bonner Fellers, an expert on Japan, the task of leading the investigation and to gather the information to decide whether Emperor Hirohito should also bear the same responsibility as Tojo and the other militarists who directed Japan's brutal war campaign in SE Asia and the S Pacific. Fellers, played by Mathew Fox, has been advised by MacArthur that he and the American public want to see Hirohito stand trial as a war criminal. But Fellers has pointed out that the peace in Japan is tenuous and that arresting the Emperor, seen as a deity to the population, could be disastrous as it may incur full scale rioting among the population, which would be exactly the opportunity Stalin and the Russians are looking for.Unfortunately, rather than just be focused on this story, the film has to meander to a totally contrived and BS love story, as Fellers is trying to find his ex-love, a Japanese girl he had met in college in the US and that he continued his relationship with when he was assigned as a military attaché in Japan before the war. There are a number of flashbacks, as Fellers tries to understand their love affair in the context of the differences between western and Japanese culture, something that has been done a number of times in films. I really don't understand the purpose, especially because this story simply wasn't true-Fellers had married an American woman in 1925 who had lived in Japan with him. The story of whether to bring Hirohito to trial is a good one and the scene where he meets with MacArthur is fascinating. Great job by Jones who plays MacArthur as the American Caesar for all it's worth.

You might have heard that what few Scenes Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas Macarthur has in this Lightweight Misfire can be Bonafide Theft, the other side is that Matthew Fox who's on Screen most of the Time gets Blown Away by almost Everyone He Stands Beside.That's not going to Bode Well for this Talky, Dry, and Deluded Movie that is about the Investigation into Japan's God Emperor and just how much Guilt should be Assigned to a Deity. It is a Film that has Lost its way along the way, Insisting on making much of an Interracial Affair as a Metaphor for the Post War Coming Together of the former Enemies.The Film works just Fine when it Attempts to Understand the Emperor and His Role in Military Affairs with Interviews and Investigations, but Overlaying the Interesting Aspects of all this is a Miscast Fox and a Deadly Droll Love Story best left to Something Else.There are some High Spots, like the End when Macarthur and the Emperor Exchange Eye Contact, but getting there is so much Ridiculous Romping that does nothing but Siphon the Enormity of the Events and Render them the Stuff of Popular Romantic Fiction.