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The Wind Rises is a fictionalised biographical film of Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982), designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, used by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The film was adapted from Miyazaki's manga of the same name.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Japanese: 風の谷のナウシカ, Hepburn: Kaze no Tani no Naushika) is a 1984 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1982–94 manga series of the same name. It was produced by Topcraft and distributed by Toei.
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Japanese English Barefoot Gen ( はだしのゲン , Hadashi no Gen ) is a 1983 Japanese adult animated war drama film loosely based on the Japanese manga series of the same name by Keiji Nakazawa .
- 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.
- Dr. Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick adapted the idea of all-out war between the Soviet Union and the United States. He tried to depict how the nuclear exchanges would eventually lead to global destruction, which to him appeared “amusing” .
- Threads (1984) .This has to be the most disturbing film on this list. Produced by the BBC, this made for TV movie shocked audiences who had never seen anything devastating like this.
- When the Wind Blows (1986) This British project depicts an elderly retiree couple before and after the nuclear attack. The couple try to get through the situation by referring to real-life pamphlets distributed by the government on how to survive an attack, but it never goes well as the couple slowly gets trapped in the radiation poisoning.
- Hadashi No Gen (1983) This outstanding Japanese animated movie features a family in 1945 Hiroshima. The tension and panic of the buildup to the bombing on August 6, 1945, is spine-chilling and incredibly well done.
Aug 18, 2023 · Barefoot Gen, an animated Japanese film, offers a horrifying depiction of the bombing of Hiroshima through the eyes of a young child. A Compassionate Spy explores the story of physicist Theodore Hall, a Soviet spy who leaked information on the atomic bombs, presenting a different perspective on the bombings.
Nov 16, 2023 · Grave of the Fireflies has a reputation as one of the most depressing animated movies of all time, and its ending explains the cost of war on the people of Japan, particularly Seita and Setsuko. Grave of the Fireflies is a 1988 animated movie from Studio Ghiblo, the second film produced by the Japanese studio following Castle in the Sky in 1986.
