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Emperor (2012)
★ 6.2 · 283 ratings on TMDB
After the war was won, the battle for peace began.
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.
DirectorPeter Webber
The emergence reading
Emperor keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E10/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
