Abstract
In the decades since Marlon Brando said sayonara to occupied Japan in 1957, in a movie of that same name, seemingly little has changed. For Hollywood scenarists, at least, postwar Japan is a place where reconstruction and romance are forever intertwined and perpetually doomed. So it remains in Peter Webber's revisitation of Tokyo in August 1945, where matters of Hirohito and of the heart coexist in an unhappy union. Part war crimes procedural, part romantic melodrama, Emperor takes as its central protagonist one of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's inner circle, Gen. Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox), who is charged with the vital mission of determining Hirohito's war guilt. Given just ten days in which to determine whether the emperor should stand trial or be allowed to remain in place, albeit stripped of divinity, Fellers sets to work. But however pressing the task and proximate the deadline, his attention remains divided. There is,...
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