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The Sun (2005)
Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov
Drama, History · 1h 51m
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.
Cast
Issey Ogata
Emperor Shouwa-Tennou Hirohito
Robert Dawson
General Douglas MacArthur
Kaori Momoi
Empress Kojun
Shiro Sano
The chamberlain
Dmitriy Podnozov
S
Shinmei Tsuji
Old servant
Taijirō Tamura
scientist
Georgi Pitskhelauri
midshipman
H
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
Crew
- Director
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Writer
- Yuriy Arabov, Jeremy Noble
- Director of Photography
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Editor
- Sergey Ivanov
- Producer
- Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Marco Mueller, Viviana Queirolo-Bertoglio, Andrey Sigle, Andrei Zertsalov, Igor Kalenov, Alexander Rodnyansky
Details
- Original title
- Солнце
- Release date
- 2005-02-17
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Japanese, English
- Countries
- Italy, Russia, France, Switzerland
- Production
- Nikola Film, Proline Film, Downtown Pictures, MACT Productions, Riforma Film
- Box office
- $217,379