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User Rating:
7.7/10   115 votes
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Director:
Kaneto Shindô
Writer:
Kaneto Shindô (writer)
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Release Date:
6 August 1952 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama | War more
Plot:
Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends. | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
An excellent, powerful movie more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Nobuko Otowa ... Takako Ishikawa
Osamu Takizawa ... Iwakichi
Niwa Saito ... Natsue Morikawa
Tsuneko Yamanaka
Shinya Ofuji
Takashi Ito
Chikako Hosokawa ... Setsu, Takako's mother
Masao Shimizu ... Toshiaki, Takako's father
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yuriko Hanabusa ... Oine
Tanie Kitabayashi ... Otoyo
Tsutomu Shimomoto ... Natsue's husband
Eijirô Tôno
Taiji Tonoyama ... Owner of a ship
Jukichi Uno ... Koji (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Children of Hiroshima
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Runtime:
97 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Sweden:15

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Featured in Hiroshima mon amour (1959) more

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12 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
An excellent, powerful movie, 8 March 1999
10/10
Author: Robert Smith from London, England

Largely overlooked today, this was one of the first films made during the Allied occupation after WW2.

Very powerful in its content, it shows the devastation caused by the Atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.

I last saw this film in 1976 and it is still vivid in my memory.

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