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Atomic People

Atomic People

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Exploring the human cost from the first and last atomic bombs used in an act of war, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities in 1945 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Featuring testimonies of some of the last 'Hibakusha' - survivors of the two atomic bombs. Combining their personal accounts with archive footage, the programme reveals how their experiences still affect them

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Frances Taylor

“If I don’t tell you the hard truth, I don’t think people will fully understand what happened under the mushroom cloud that day.” These are the words of a “Hibakusha”, the name given to Japanese survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War. This landmark film helps gives voice to some of the Hibakusha before their stories are lost for ever.

Their accounts are as poetic as they are harrowing (“It felt like the sun had fallen” is how one describes the moment of impact at Hiroshima), and unimaginable horrors are graphically relayed with quiet dignity: of the seaweed-like skin that had melted from bodies, and of burying the disfigured remains of friends. With a pain that has lasted a lifetime, one 99-year-old survivor tells of the injured at Nagasaki crying out to her for water. Today, she brings a glass of water to a Buddha in her home every morning and evening, “because those people’s wish for wanting some water is still soaked into my body”.

This is a stunning, significant film with images and photographs so appalling that, at times, it’s hard not to turn away. It’s a sobering reminder of just how inhumane humanity can be.

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8.3/10

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rolenameExecutive producerMorgan MatthewsDirectorMegumi InmanDirectorBenedict SandersonEditorOtto BurnhamProducerMayu NakamuraProducerEma YamazakiProducerNaoko MiyamotoProducerMitsu Hagiwara

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English | Japanese

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