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Barefoot Gen, a Japanese animated feature film, tells the story of Gen (pronounced with a hard “G”), a young boy who, along with his mother, survives the bombing of Hiroshima. The story chronicles their struggles as they try to rebuild their lives from the bomb’s ashes.
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the Allies of World War II conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima .
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- Roger Christensen
- Hiroshima (1953) Set in the aftermath of the August 6, 1945 bombing, Hideo Sekigawa’s Hiroshima follows a group of survivors, known as hibakusha, as they flee destruction and attempt to rebuild their lives.
- Black Rain (1989) Despite surviving nuclear warfare, hibakusha and their children faced enormous discrimination in post-war Japan. This was largely due to ignorance surrounding the last effects of radiation sickness and the belief that it was contagious.
- Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) Also known as Frankenstein Conquers the World, this is a wildly different interpretation of WWII nuclear anxiety, but an important one all the same.
- Godzilla (1954) Speaking of monster movies as metaphor for nuclear anxieties, it’s hard to talk about the genre without mentioning Godzilla. Though the original 1954 film doesn’t explicitly depict the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, they’re deeply felt in the story.
Oct 20, 2020 · A young couple finds themselves taking shelter in a cave when an atom bomb is dropped on London. A surprise visit makes them face the terrible reality of doomsday. A 10 megaton (10 thousand ...
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- Derek Road Productions
Apr 25, 2012 · Japanese Nuclear Propaganda Cartoon: MUST SEE. a female faust. 213 subscribers. 70. 7.7K views 11 years ago. From 1993. Unbelievable. The company that created it says they no longer have a...
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Experiencing the Atomic Bombing of Japan Through the Film “Pikadon” By Mike Meginnis. Sixty-nine years after Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, a short animated film continues to capture the horror of the world’s first nuclear attack. August 6, 1945: An air raid siren was not, in itself, a reason to panic.
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For real, as bad as the two nuclear bombs that American forces dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, they weren’t that much worse than the firebombing that virtually ever major city in Japan and endured by that point in the war.
