The Sun / Солнце (2005)
DVD-Rip | Russian; Japanese, English | Subtitle: English (not built in) | 1:50:36 | 720 x 416 | 25fps | XviD | AC3 - 448 kb/s, 6 chnls (3/2.1) | 1.95 GB
Genre: Drama
Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's tetrology, following "Moloch" and "Taurus", focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by Gen.
The predictably unreliable Russian filmmaker has shot this wonderfully eccentric and fascinating film about the last days of Emperor Hirohito's reign as if it were a science-fiction film. And indeed, the otherworldly Hirohito (Issey Ogata) certainly does suggest a somewhat less cuddlesome E. T., both in his alienation from the quotidian world (the coddled emperor can barely dress himself) and in his relationship with his nominally more human protector, in this case General MacArthur (Robert Dawson).
1 win & 2 nominations.