Event

THE SUN, Sunday Schmooze

Sunday, January 24

Bagel Brunch at 10am
Film at 11am
Followed by Discussion with CAC Co-Director Vic Skolnick

$9 Members / $12 Public
Active Membership Will Be Checked

Also Screening January 25 at 7:30pm (regular admission)

August 15, 1945: a shocked Japan hears the voice of divine leader Emperor Hirohito for the first time, as he implores his people to cease all military activity, initiating a formal end to WWII and the beginning of a new period of American Occupation, led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Acclaimed Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Mother and Son, Alexandra)
creates an incisive, eerie portrait of the enigmatic Hirohito during the twilight of the war, as he
faces surrender and renunciation of his divine status. Issey Ogata (YI YI) gives a mesmerizing
performance as the defeated emperor who had been considered a god, and whose every step was
planned and executed by a large staff. The film builds to stunning climax with Hirohito's legendary meetings with MacArthur where
they determine the fate of his nation and lay the foundation for Japan's phoenix-like postwar reconstruction.

(Russia, 2005, 115 min.)