The Sun 2005 123movies

Watch: Солнце 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – As Japan nears defeat at the end of World War II, Emperor Hirohito starts his day in a bunker underneath the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. A servant reads to him a list of activities for the day, including a meeting with his ministers, marine biology research, and writing his son. Hirohito muses about the impact on such schedules when the Americans arrive but is told that as long as there is a solitary Japanese person living, the Americans will not reach The Emperor. Hirohito replies that he at times feels like he himself will be the last Japanese person left alive. The servant reminds him that he is a deity, not a person, but Hirohito points out that he has a body just like any other man. He later reflects on the causes of the war when dictating observations about a hermit crab, and then about the peace to come when composing a letter to his son. Soon enough General Douglas MacArthur’s personal car is sent to bring him through the ruins of Tokyo for a meeting with the supreme commander of the victorious occupying forces. Underlying all the conversation that follows is the question of Hirohito’s future, either as Emperor or a war criminal. The two very different men strangely bond after sharing dinner and Havana cigars, and Hirohito leaves, renounces his divine nature, and is re-united with his family in the palace to face a new life to help re-build his war-ravaged country as a constitutional monarch..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 2,843
	93% | RottenTomatoes
	85/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 48 Popularity: 3.085 | TMDB

Reviews:

An Emperor is All-too Human
“The Sun” was a good way to introduce ourselves to the minimalist, detail-obsessed films of Alexander Sokurov — so thanks to Minnesota Film Arts for showing it at St. Anthony Main, February 2010.

Sokurov’s Emperor Hirohito is not only humanized in this film, he finds redemption, if in a limited way that leaves him assailable for his true weakness: weakness of will, anxiety of spirit, and dreamy preference for leisurely study and cool contemplation. Hirohito is a true nobleman where his job called for either a savior or a butcher.

The actor who plays Hirohito has an amazing technique. All of his facial features and especially his mouth and front teeth are applied very deliberately to create the sense of a careful, intelligent, and ultimately ordinary man.

What to say of Sokurov’s unique vision? It’s something like a documentary of daily habits, a virtuosic sequencing of mundane and ritual behavior — eating breakfast, reading a book, chatting with his servants, waiting for General McArthur to return, greeting his wife — sequences that contain turning points. A surprisingly naive, yet resigned man faces up to his life, thus learning to really live in the end.

A great film
Sokurov’s haunting recreation of how Emperor Hirohito spent the last hours before the Japanese surrender, this is a miraculous work, and it provided the most powerful aesthetic and emotional experience of the 2005 New York Film Festival, whose official selections were not lacking in depth and fine film-making.

“The Sun” depicts a man who knows very well what is going on but lives in a cocoon, in a state of detachment and ineffectuality that becomes strangely heartrending. Issey Ogata’s performance as the Emperor easily competes for hypnotic intensity with Bruno Ganz’s Hitler in the German film “Downfall” — but with a very different sort of bunker and a very different kind of man: a silent, immaculate country house with a few faithful servants in attendance; a small, frail but upright and dignified personage who can easily explain the causes of the Japanese defeat to his general staff but has never learned to dress himself or open a door. Even on this day he is more comfortable browsing through photos of his family and American movie stars, dictating notes on marine biology, and writing poetry. Despite the disgrace, he is selflessly happy that peace has come. He inks a brush to write a statement to his absent son, but instead drafts a few verses about the weather.

Later he is taken to see Eisenhower, and then brought back again to dine with the general. He enjoys the wine and the meat and has his first taste of a Havana cigar. The Americans conclude that the Emperor is like a child. “What’s it like being a living god?” Ike asks. And speaking, to the dismay of the Japanese interpreter, in perfect English, Hirohito says, “What can I tell you? You know, it is not easy being Emperor.” These are just a few details in a film rich in telling ones. Simply enumerating them can’t explain this film’s slow, cumulative emotional wallop — or the lovely, fantastic, dreamlike landscape images toward the end. This film about one of modern history’s most humiliating defeats is a stunning triumph.

“The Sun” demonstrates unmistakably that Andrei Sokurov is one of the world’s great filmmakers.

Other Information:

Original Language ru
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, History
Director Aleksandr Sokurov
Writer Yuriy Arabov, Jeremy Noble
Actors Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi
Country Russia, Italy, Switzerland, France
Awards 6 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm