Hiroshima (1953 film)

Hiroshima
Yumeji Tsukioka in Hiroshima
Directed byHideo Sekigawa
Screenplay byYasutarō Yagi
Based on
  • Children Of The A Bomb: Testament Of The Boys And Girls Of Hiroshima
  • by Arata Osada
Produced byTakeo Ito
Starring
CinematographyYoshio Miyajima
Edited byAkikazu Kono
Music byAkira Ifukube
Production
company
Distributed byHokusei
Release date
  • 7 October 1953 (1953-10-07) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time
109 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Hiroshima (ひろしま) is a 1953 Japanese docudrama film directed by Hideo Sekigawa about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its impact on a group of teachers, their students, and their families. The film was based on the eye-witness accounts of the hibakusha children compiled by Dr. Arata Osada for the 1951 best-selling book Children Of The A Bomb: Testament Of The Boys And Girls Of Hiroshima (原爆の子, Genbaku no ko), and was filmed with the support of tens of thousands of Hiroshima residents.[3]

Produced with the backing of the Japan Teachers Union, which had also produced the 1952 film Children of Hiroshima, the film's "anti-American" stance and content prevented it from gaining a wide release in Japan.[3]

  1. ^ "ひろしま". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  2. ^ "ひろしま". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 August 2023.
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