The biographical film about the physicist Robert Oppenheimer collected seven statuettes at Sunday’s Oscars after grossing $954 million (22 billion crowns) worldwide. However, the film has not yet been shown in Japan, the only country to have experienced nuclear bombing, the newspaper recalled The Independent.
When the United States dropped atomic bombs on the recalcitrant island nation days before the end of World War II, approximately 140,000 people died in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki.
The mega-budget film will finally see its release in the world’s only empire and at the same time the world’s third largest market for cinematography on March 29. Toho-Towa, the local distributor of Universal Studios, held a special screening for high school students on Tuesday and was gauging their reactions.
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The locals disagree
Near the city’s peace monument near the epicenter of the explosion, 69-year-old Heja Mizijaku leaves The Japan Times she says that director Christopher Nolan’s work seems “very Americanist” to her from what she’s learned about him so far.
The prospect of reaching an audience even in Hiroshima, today a thriving metropolis of 1.2 million inhabitants, terrified her. Finally, she reconsidered her opinion. “Now I want a lot of people to watch it because I’d like it to make Hiroshima, Nagasaki and atomic weapons a topic of discussion,” she says.
Ju Sató, a 22-year-old student at Hiroshima City University, admits she felt “a little scared” of how the Oscar hit would be received by the hibakusha, the bombing survivors and their families. “To be honest, I have mixed feelings,” confides a young woman who works with survivors as part of her studio. “Oppenheimer created a weapon of unheard-of destruction, making the world a much more dangerous place,” he notes.
Teruko Jahata, a hibakusha, looks forward to Oppenheimer and hopes that he will revive the debate about atomic weapons.
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The Atomic Dome in Hiroshima, which survived the atomic bomb 160 meters from the epicenter, was originally designed by the Czech architect Jan Letzel as the Industrial Palace.
“I’m happy to look at him,” assures forty-three-year-old teacher Yasuhiró Akijama. “I hope that viewers around the world who see it will want to visit Hiroshima and come to the Peace Memorial Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome,” he added.
Yoshito Ihara, a 63-year-old real estate broker, said he doubted that countries possessing the weapons would ever give them up. However, he believes that the film can educate and motivate individuals to advocate for change.
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And where were the victims?
Controversy over the film’s content, which some criticized for glossing over the human casualties of the bombing, and marketing after its debut last July cast doubt on the film’s release in Japan.
The film premiered in South Korea in August and was a financial success in China and other Asian markets.
Among the film’s critics is the American director Spike Lee, who to the diary The Los Angeles Times he said that at three hours, Nolan could have added “a few more minutes about what happened to the Japanese”.
“People have evaporated,” Lee continued. “Even many years later, many survivors were killed by radioactivity. I would like it if at the end of the film it was shown what Oppenheimer did when they dropped the two nuclear bombs on Japan.”
“The Most Important Man Who Ever Lived”
Nolan, who calls Oppenheimer “the most important man who ever lived,” countered that he felt that moving away from the scientist’s experience in the film would “betray the terms of the narrative.” world,” Nolan told NBC last July.
Many Japanese were offended by the Barbenheimer campaign, created by fans on the Internet, which linked the film to Barbie, another blockbuster that premiered at the same time, the paper wrote last summer The Japan Times.
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, considered by many to be one of the greatest war crimes in history, has never appeared in an American mainstream film. Director James Cameron, who came closest to it with the most riveting scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, has reportedly been trying for years to make a film based on the story of Cutomu Yamaguchi, who survived both atomic bombs.
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