The Sun

Japan in the last days of the war, and Emperor Hirohito (Issey Ogata) lives in an underground bunker in Tokyo, attended by a chamberlain (Shiro Sano) and an old servant (Shinmei Tsuji). Aleksandr Sokurov follows him through his bowed, murmured routines as General Douglas MacArthur (Robert Dawson) and the occupying forces arrive. The man held to be a god mostly wants to know what he is allowed to do next.