The Sun (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.
GENRES:
Drama • History
DIRECTION:
Aleksandr Sokurov
Cast & Characters
| Issey Ogata | Emperor Shouwa-Tennou Hirohito |
| Robert Dawson | General Douglas MacArthur (as Robert Dawson) |
| Kaori Momoi | Empress Kojun |
| Shirō Sano | The chamberlain |
| Dmitriy Podnozov | |
| Shinmei Tsuji | Old servant |
| Taijirō Tamura | scientist |
| Georgi Pitskhelauri | midshipman |
| Hiroya Morita | Suzuki, Prime Minister |
| Toshiaki Nishizawa | Yonai, Minister of the Navy |
| Naomasa Musaka | Anami, Minister of the War |
| Kōjirō Kusanagi | Togo, Minister of Foreign Affairs |