He inherited more of his temperament from his grandfather, the driving, autocratic Emperor Meiji, than from his sickly, dilettante father, Emperor Taisho.

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He's taken to a far-off wilderness place where his father, as an honorable man, must do the bidding of the Emperor (Giancarlo Giannini).

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For the next eleven Ceasars, there was not instance where a father was able to make his son an emperor.

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