The Sun

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.

Cast for The Sun...

Issey Ogata
Emperor Shouwa-Tennou Hirohito
Robert Dawson
General Douglas MacArthur
Kaori Momoi
Empress Kojun
Shirō Sano
The chamberlain
Shinmei Tsuji
Old servant
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
Tetsuro Tsuno
General Umezu
Jun Haichi
Abe, Minister of the Interior
Kôjun Itô
Hironuma
Mikhail Terentyev
US army captain
Valeriy Li
victim of explosion