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Solntse

  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 50m
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7.3/10
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Solntse (2005)
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Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally c... Read allThird part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for su... Read allThird part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.

  • Director
    • Aleksandr Sokurov
  • Writers
    • Yuriy Arabov
    • Jeremy Noble
  • Stars
    • Issei Ogata
    • Robert Dawson
    • Kaori Momoi
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    2.9K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Aleksandr Sokurov
    • Writers
      • Yuriy Arabov
      • Jeremy Noble
    • Stars
      • Issei Ogata
      • Robert Dawson
      • Kaori Momoi
    • 31User reviews
    • 67Critic reviews
    • 85Metascore
  • See production, box office & company info
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 9 nominations

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    Issei Ogata
    Issei Ogata
    • Emperor Shouwa-Tennou Hirohito
    Robert Dawson
    • General Douglas MacArthur
    Kaori Momoi
    Kaori Momoi
    • Empress Kojun
    Shirô Sano
    Shirô Sano
    • The chamberlain
    Shinmei Tsuji
    • Old servant
    Taijirô Tamura
    • Scientist
    Georgiy Pitskhelauri
    • McArthur's warrant officer
    Hiroya Morita
    • Suzuki, Prime Minister
    Toshiaki Nishizawa
    Toshiaki Nishizawa
    • Yonai, Minister of the Navy
    Naomasa Musaka
    • Anami - Minister of War
    Yûsuke Tozawa
    • Kido
    • (as Yusuke Tozawa)
    Kôjirô Kusanagi
    Kôjirô Kusanagi
    • Togo, Minister of Foreign Affairs
    Tetsuro Tsuno
    • General Umezu
    Rokuro Abe
    • General Toyoda
    Jun Haichi
    • Abe, Minister of the Interior
    Kôjun Itô
    • Hironuma
    Tôru Shinagawa
    • Sakomizu
    Vadim Badmatsyrenov
    • soldiers of the Emperor
    • (as Vadim Badmatsyreov)
    • Director
      • Aleksandr Sokurov
    • Writers
      • Yuriy Arabov
      • Jeremy Noble
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    • Trivia
      Aleksandr Sokurov kept the name of the actor playing the Emperor secret, since it is taboo in Japan to play an Emperor on film. Sokurov was afraid for the safety of the actor, after Nagisa Ôshima told him there had been two attempts on his life after he criticized Imperial Japan during WWII.
    • Quotes

      Shouwa-Tennou Hirohito: Our chances of victory in the war with the west were 50 out of 100. Germany's chances in this war were 100 out of 100.

      General Douglas MacArthur: What are you talking about?

      Shouwa-Tennou Hirohito: I'm talking about the alliance with Germany.

      General Douglas MacArthur: Well, that is all in the past. There is only one unresolved issue left. That is the issue of your fate.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Voice of Sokurov (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      from DIE GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
      Composed by Richard Wagner

    User reviews31

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    A hard viewing but psychologically interesting for some
    Another part of Sokurov's "totalitarian" sequence, this is devoted to Japanese WW II-time Emperor Hirohito and his farewell to the old good times of imperial Japan and painful entry into new after-war realities of defeated Japan rising to "democracy" and subject to America's "civilizing".

    Compared to the dictators previously depicted by Sokurov (Hitler and Lenin), Hirohito appears the least dictatorial: he sometimes is felt like a "hostage" of the desire to defend the country's own pass of development against the "corroding" influx of Western "plebeian" culture, the desire which led Japan into the fascist "axis" and determined its defeat when the old traditions of relying on the soldiers' spirit and honour and not technical power, and despising non-Japanese as barbarians did not justify themselves.

    The film is a hard viewing even for art-house fans because of obscure (probably psychologically justified) coloring and virtually no exterior action. All the action is psychological depicting the way the Emperor comes to reality and to realizing (and publicly declaring) that he is a man, not God, and taking the disgrace of defeat on himself to save his country.

    Overall, 7/10.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 18, 2005 (Italy)
    • Countries of origin
      • Russia
      • Italy
      • Switzerland
      • France
    • Languages
      • Japanese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Sun
    • Production companies
      • Nikola Film
      • Proline Film
      • Downtown Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $77,303
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $11,588
      • Nov 22, 2009
    • Gross worldwide
      • $218,325
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 50 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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