Hiroshima (1953 film)
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Yumeji Tsukioka in Hiroshima | |
| Directed by | Hideo Sekigawa |
| Screenplay by | Yasutarō Yagi |
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| Produced by | Takeo Ito |
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| Cinematography | Yoshio Miyajima |
| Edited by | Akikazu Kono |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
Production company | Japan Teachers Union Production |
| Distributed by | Hokusei |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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.
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.