The Emperor and a General

You sit in a Tokyo war room where maps are already ashes and the radio hums static. The Emperor’s voice cracks over the airwaves asking for peace but the uniformed men in the room refuse to surrender. When junior officers storm the palace with drawn swords the Minister of the Army walks into a garden and puts on his dress whites one last time. Directors later note how silence can outscore any score. The leaves fall like spent papers across the courtyard.

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Kihachi Okamoto directed The Emperor and a General in 1967. See Kihachi Okamoto's full filmography, where to start with Kihachi Okamoto, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kihachi Okamoto.

The Emperor and a General was released in 1967 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 157 minutes.