So you say Tommy Lee Jones plays the same gruff, old curmudgeon in every movie? His Agent K is the same as his Thaddeus Stevens? Well, what's the incentive for him to branch out at this point, especially when he's picked up a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for Lincoln? In Emperor, the new WWII-era drama from Peter Webber(The Girl with the Pearl Earring), he gets to bark orders as General Douglas MacArthur.
The film played at last year's Toronto Film Festival, and the reactions weren't very good at all. Matthew Fox plays General Bonner Fellers, an expert in Japanese culture who is hired to decide the fate of Japan and Emperor Hirohito after WWII. Complicating matters is Fellers' search for the long lost Japanese woman who first drew him to Japan.
Emperor has no release date, but is said to be arriving soon.
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