Hiroshima (1953 film)

Hiroshima (ひろしま) is a 1953 Japanese docudrama film directed by Hideo Sekigawa about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its impact on a group of teachers, their students, and their families. The film was based on the eye-witness accounts of the hibakusha children compiled by Dr. Arata Osada for the 1951 best-selling book Children Of The A Bomb: Testament Of The Boys And Girls Of Hiroshima (原爆の子, Genbaku no ko), and was filmed with the support of tens of thousands of Hiroshima residents.

Hiroshima
Yumeji Tsukioka in Hiroshima
Directed byHideo Sekigawa
Screenplay byYasutarō Yagi
Based on
  • Children Of The A Bomb: Testament Of The Boys And Girls Of Hiroshima
  • by Arata Osada
Produced byTakeo Ito
Starring
CinematographyYoshio Miyajima
Edited byAkikazu Kono
Music byAkira Ifukube
Production
company
Distributed byHokusei
Release date
  • 7 October 1953 (1953-10-07) (Japan)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Produced with the backing of the Japan Teachers Union, which had also produced the 1952 film Children of Hiroshima, the film's "anti-American" stance and content prevented it from gaining a wide release in Japan.

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