A deeply moving autobiographical account by the manga artist Keiji Nakazawa, who, as a six year old boy living in Hiroshima on August 6th 1945, witnessed the horrific aftermath of the first atomic bomb. Terrible, tragic and utterly hypnotic.
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GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (1988)
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Originally released in 1988, the wait is over for the UK release of this anime classic, superb animated feature from the Studio Ghibli studio (Miyazaki's animation stable). What sets this film apart from the fantastical films made in the tradition of his peers, it its historical and emotional realism. The focus in Takahata's film is on the story of its two young protagonists, brother and sister Seita and Setsuko, as they flee the destruction of their home and family after the American firebombin
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HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959)
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The story of a French actress and a Japanese man's brief affair in Hiroshima, stirring up painful memories for them both, for her wartime 'collaboration' and, for him, the bomb which quite literally destroyed everything he had known. Resnais's film is now seen as revolutionary for its time an a must for film study courses. Sadly haunting.
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