
Solntse (2005)
Directed by
Aleksandr Sokurov
Country: Russia
Language: English / Japanese / Russian
Color: Color
Length: 110 min
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439817/
Review: http://filmbrain.typepad.com/filmbrain/ ... ary_7.html
Plot Outline: Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's tetrology, following "Moloch" and "Taurus", focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohita and Japan's defeat in World War II.
Trivia: 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 Oshima told him there have been two attempts on his life after he criticized Imperial Japan during WWII.
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.
Now we have spanish subs, and a nice dvdrip! THANKS shimoda!
Film:
1007.57 Mb
XviD 1135 Kbps
Res: 640x352
Audio MP3 128 kbps
Subs:
http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitl ... solntse-es