The Sun
2005-02-17A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.

A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.

Emperor Shouwa-Tennou Hirohito
Issey Ogata

General Douglas MacArthur
Robert Dawson

Empress Kojun
Kaori Momoi

The chamberlain
Shiro Sano

Dmitriy Podnozov
Old servant
Shinmei Tsuji

scientist
Taijirō Tamura

midshipman
Georgi Pitskhelauri
Suzuki, Prime Minister
Hiroya Morita

Yonai, Minister of the Navy
Toshiaki Nishizawa

Anami, Minister of the War
Naomasa Musaka

Togo, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Kōjirō Kusanagi
General Umezu
Tetsurō Tsuno
Abe, Minister of the Interior
Jun Haichi

Hironuma
Kojun Ito

Sakomizu
Tōru Shinagawa

Aleksandr Balsanov
US army captain
Mikhail Terentyev

Sergey Nozdrin
Vyacheslav Ivanov

victim of explosion
Valeriy Li

Laura Pitskhelauri

Aleksandr Aleksandrov

Valeriy Sklyarov

Pavel Kornakov

Vadim Badmacyrenov

Filipp Shkolnik