Hiroshima

original title:
Hiroshima
country / year of production:
Japan / 1953
original length:
110 min. , black/white
premiere:
7 October 1953
genre:
Documentary
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director:
Hideo Sekigawa
film script:
Yasutaro Yagi
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cast (role):
Takashi Kanda , Masao Mishima , Eiji Okada
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plot synopsis:
In the beginning of the film the atomic bomb falls on Hiroshima and the whole city is destroyed. Many people die or suffer. The film tells the story of a young boy who survived the attack. At the end of the film he is shown ten years later, when he reflects about his life.
keywords:
Hiroshima , atomic bomb , children , youth during wartime , home front , air raid
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Mick Broderick (ed.). Hibakusha Cinema. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Cinema. London/ New York: Kegan Paul Int., 1996.

Hans Herlin. Die Männer der Enola Gay. München: Heyne, 1978.

Stephen Walker. Hiroshima. Countdown einer Katastrophe. München: Bertelsmann, 2005.
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