Children of Hiroshima

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01/11/2020 A true masterpiece. Great visual storytelling. See more 06/19/2014 A Japanese melodrama about the A-bomb aftermath in Hiroshima shot in the style of Italian neo-realism. See more 08/17/2011 http://www.clevelandmovieblog.com/2011/08/children-of-hiroshima-august-5th-and.html See more Walter M @Harlequin68 04/28/2011 In "Children of Hiroshima," Takako(Nobuko Otowa), a teacher, is returning to her home in Hiroshima for the first time in years, having moved to an island to live with relatives after the atomic blast. On her return, she finds the city in the process of rebuilding but also Iwakichi(Osamu Takizawa), a former employee of her father's, and now nearly blind, forced to beg on the streets. At least, while Natsue(Niwa Saito), a friend and former colleague, is infertile, she also works as a midwife as she and her husband(Tsutomu Shimomoto) are in the process of adopting a baby. Takako's next stop is to look up their three surviving kindergarten students. "Children of Hiroshima" is a heartbreaking movie shot in the finest neo-realist style, as it successfully takes the tragedy of the bombing down to a personal level with the city in the background. What soon becomes apparent in the individual characters' stories is the indiscriminate nature of the deaths, depending on where a person was when the bomb went off, thus breaking up families and creating large amounts of orphans. Even years later, the radiation still kills, randomly and suddenly. Actually, nobody got away totally unscathed in the city. Takako's most visible wound is the glass shard in her shoulder but to audiences of her time, it probably seemed tragic that she had little hope for marriage. See more 08/22/2010 ****): Thumbs Up A powerful film experience. See more 06/28/2010 More of a dramatic documentary than a movie. Historical and quite an important account of the Atomic Bomb aftermath as you see Hiroshima and its people during the reconstruction era but as a film, it is rather sentimental and a bit mediocre. See more Read all reviews

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