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Hideo Sekigawa's HIROSHIMA ('53) opens years after the bombing as school children try to manage the lingering effects of radiation sickness before flashing back to an extended & graphic depiction of the events of 8/6. It's estimated that 88K local extras were used for the film.
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HIROSHIMA ('53)
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Tracy B.
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The atomic bomb and the destruction with radiation was the driving force for Akira Ifukube (who composed the music for the film) creation of Godzilla (1954)
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Unconventionally Conventional
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All Americans should watch. The perspective of the Japanese in the years following Hiroshima and Nagasaki is important to hear. Among things relevant for today is the belief that we were willing to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese, but not Germans, bc they were “colored.”
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