Hiroshima (1953)
October 7, 1953Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Isuzu Yamada
Mine Ôba
Eiji Okada
Kitagawa
Yoshi Katō
Hideo Endô
Yumeji Tsukioka
Yonehara
Yasumi Hara
Itô
Shizue Kawarazaki
Yoshiko Endô
Hatae Kishi
Okazaki, nurse
Harue Tone
Nursery
Takashi Kanda
Senda
Masaya Tsukida
Yukio Endô
Kenji Susukida
Dr. Nishina
Hideo Sekigawa
Director
Yasutaro Yagi
Writer
Takero Itō
Producer
Akira Ifukube
Composer
Shunichirō Nakao
Cinematographer
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 7, 1953
Original Nameひろしま
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 45m
Content RatingPG
Budget$240,000
Genres
Wiki.
Hiroshima (ひろしま) is a 1953 Japanese docudrama film directed by Hideo Sekigawa about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its impact. It tells the story of a group of teachers, their students, and their families in the years after the bomb. In a flashback sequence, tens of thousands of extras from Hiroshima, many of them survivors, helped recreate the "hellscape" immediately following the bombing.The film was based on the eye-witness accounts of the bombing's child survivors compiled by Dr. Arata Osada for the 1951 best-selling book Children Of The A Bomb: Testament Of The Boys And Girls Of Hiroshima (Genbaku no ko). Produced with the backing of the Japan Teachers Union, the film's "anti-American" stance and graphic content prevented it from gaining a wide release. It fell into obscurity, but has resurfaced in the late 2010s. Many of the cast and crew went on to play important roles in post-war Japanese cinema.