The Sun

October. 08,2005      
Rating:
7.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Issey Ogata as  Emperor Shouwa-Tennou Hirohito
Robert Dawson as  General Douglas MacArthur
Kaori Momoi as  Empress Kojun
Shiro Sano as  The chamberlain
Taijirō Tamura as  scientist
Georgi Pitskhelauri as  midshipman
Toshiaki Nishizawa as  Yonai, Minister of the Navy
Naomasa Musaka as  Anami, Minister of the War
Kōjirō Kusanagi as  Togo, Minister of Foreign Affairs

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