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Aug 10, 2017 · A lushly animated historical drama about a young woman who comes of age during the tumult of World War II, Sunao Katabuchi’s “In this Corner of the World” is scattered and emotionally ...
Apr 10, 2023 · When the tsunami and quake ravaged the Tōhoku region of northern Japan and prompted a nuclear meltdown, Shinkai, a now 50-year-old director and animator of some of the most popular anime features in the world, could feel his sense of storytelling crumbling.
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Future War 198X (フューチャーウォー198X年, Fyūchā Wō Sen Kyū Hachi Ekkusu-nen) is a 1982 Japanese anime science fiction war original video animation directed by Toshio Masuda and Tomoharu Katsumata. [1] Set during the Cold War in an unspecified year of the 1980s, the film details the outbreak of World War III between NATO and the ...
- ~600 million yen (US$6.5 million in 2023)
- Seiji Yokoyama
- Toru Yoshida
- 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.
Anime movies about nuclear explosion. List of the best anime films about a nuclear explosion according to the audience: From Up on Poppy Hill, Lu Over the Wall, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, Okko's Inn, Grave of the Fireflies, Kid's Story, Blade Runner: Black Out 2022, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, The ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Hayao Miyazaki 's The Wind Rises may be animated, but grapples with adult concepts of responsibility as it tells the real-life story of a designer of war planes. Other good films featured on this list include Unbroken and To End All Wars. Do you have a favorite WWII movie about Japan?
Pikadon ( Japanese: ピカドン Hepburn: Pikadon, "atomic bomb" [1]) is a 1978 Japanese short animated documentary war film anime, [2] produced and directed [3] by Renzo Kinoshita. [4] Plot. The movie starts with depiction a normal morning in Hiroshima . Although there is no protagonist, most focus is centered around a child playing with a paper plane.
