The Sun

The Sun

110 mins | Drama, History | Feb. 17, 2005

Biographical film depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) during the final days of World War II. The film is the third drama in director Aleksandr Sokurov's trilogy, which included Taurus about the Soviet Union's Vladimir Lenin and Moloch about Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler.

The Sun

110 mins | Drama, History | Feb. 17, 2005

The Sun
Biographical film depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) during the final days of World War II. The film is the third drama in director Aleksandr Sokurov's trilogy, which included Taurus about the Soviet Union's Vladimir Lenin and Moloch about Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers MACT Productions, Proline Film, Downtown Pictures, Nikola Film, Riforma Film
Original title Солнце
Directors Aleksandr Sokurov
Writers Jeremy Noble, Yuriy Arabov

Cast

Issey Ogata

as Emperor Shouwa-Tennou Hirohito

Robert Dawson

as General Douglas MacArthur

Kaori Momoi

as Empress Kojun

Shiro Sano

as The chamberlain

Shinmei Tsuji

as Old servant

Taijiro Tamura

as scientist

Georgi Pitskhelauri

as midshipman

Hiroya Morita

as Suzuki, Prime Minister

Toshiaki Nishizawa

as Yonai, Minister of the Navy

Naomasa Musaka

as Anami, Minister of the War

Kōjirō Kusanagi

as Togo, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Tetsuro Tsuno

as General Umezu

Jun Haichi

as Abe, Minister of the Interior

Kôjun Itô

as Hironuma

Tôru Shinagawa

as Sakomizu

Mikhail Terentyev

as US army captain

Valeriy Li

as victim of explosion