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      The Sun

      2005 1h 55m History Drama List
      93% Tomatometer 42 Reviews 79% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Emperor Hirohito (Issei Ogata) of Japan meets with Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1945. Read More Read Less
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      Certainly not for the impatient, Aleksandr Sokurov's deliberately paced look at Hirohito in the waning days of World War II is both enlightening and admirable in its restraint.

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      Keith Uhlich Time Out Sokurov, who also acted as director of photography, films the character and his surroundings with the eye of a newly arrived visitor to another world. Rated: 5/5 Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Ben Kenigsberg Time Out Rated: 4/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Wesley Morris Boston Globe Working from Yuri Arabov and Jeremy Noble's script, Sokurov has a wonderful time not simply with Hirohito and history, but with his filmmaking, which can be oblique to the point of being stultifying. Here he plays with scale. Rated: 3.5/4 Apr 1, 2010 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com A brilliant film. Rated: 3.5/4.0 Sep 24, 2020 Full Review David Harris Spectrum Culture An astounding work of intimate detail that should not be missed. Rated: 4/5 Oct 16, 2019 Full Review Paul Dale The List With its slow pace, weird stabs at slapstick, and odd stilted performances, The Sun may not be for everyone -- but in its very perverseness, it has to to be noted that this is a unique, mesmerizing, mad and brilliantly intuitive study. Rated: 4/5 Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Leaburn O This film was good 👍🏼 Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Oddly hypnotic and fascinating. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member A heavyweight masterpiece in a lightweight digital form. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Sokurov at his most personal, beautiful and haunting. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting piece of story or history ?! Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Americans unreflectively view other countries through Hollywood filters, so it takes (for example) seeing the end of the Japanese-American war through a post-Soviet Russian lens to remind us of subjectivity in history. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Emperor Hirohito (Issei Ogata) of Japan meets with Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1945.
      Director
      Aleksandr Sokurov
      Screenwriter
      Yuriy Arabov
      Production Co
      RAI Cinema, Istituto Luce Cinecittà
      Genre
      History, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 22, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 55m