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Between The Sun And Japan: An Inter-National Ethics Of Cinema / 『太陽』と日本のあいだ 映画におけるインターナショナルな倫理, Aaron Gerow
Between The Sun And Japan: An Inter-National Ethics Of Cinema / 『太陽』と日本のあいだ 映画におけるインターナショナルな倫理, Aaron Gerow
Aaron Gerow
This article considers how Alexandr Sokurov’s film The Sun (Solntse, 2005) approaches the problem of representing the nation by foregrounding the issue of the ethics of representing a foreign country—in this case, the Shōwa emperor Hirohito. This becomes a cinematic problem because of the way the Japanese emperor, in films ranging from The Last Samurai to The Emperor, the Empress, and the Sino-Japanese War, has often been treated as an object or subject of the gaze. Focusing on the mismatched gazes in the film, this article finds the spectator floating between the two gazes or between the seer …