Message From Hiroshima Cinema Libre Studio Reviewed by: Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer for Shockya Grade: B Directed & written by: Masaaki Tanabe Cast: George Takei Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 8/18/15 During the early 1990s I visited an aviation museum in the outskirts of Albuquerque, New Mexico where I watched an old and torn war propaganda film dealing with the ”benefits” of the atomic bomb, dropped over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6th, 1945. Throughout the years many films have been produced about the subject, with opinions about “benefits” sprinting on both sides of the spectrum. Message From Hiroshima, a documentary narrated by George Takei, does not deal with these issues, [ Read More ]
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- 8/19/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
'The Beginning or the End' 1947 with Robert Walker and Tom Drake. Hiroshima bombing 70th anniversary: Six movies dealing with the A-bomb terror Seventy years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. Ultimately, anywhere between 70,000 and 140,000 people died – in addition to dogs, cats, horses, chickens, and most other living beings in that part of the world. Three days later, America dropped a second atomic bomb, this time over Nagasaki. Human deaths in this other city totaled anywhere between 40,000-80,000. For obvious reasons, the evisceration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been a quasi-taboo in American films. After all, in the last 75 years Hollywood's World War II movies, from John Farrow's Wake Island (1942) and Mervyn LeRoy's Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) to Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) and Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor (2001), almost invariably have presented a clear-cut vision...
- 8/7/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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