Children of Hiroshima


Children of Hiroshima , Genbaku no Ko? , lit. Children of the Atomic Bomb also released as AtomBombed Children in Hiroshima, is a 1952 Japanese feature film directed by Kaneto Shindo, a docudrama made with extreme emotions, having the capacity to wound.

Takako Ishikawa Nobuko Otowa is a teacher on an island in the inland sea off the coast of Hiroshima after World War II. During her summer holiday, she goes back to Hiroshima to visit the graves of her parents and younger sister, who were killed in the bomb attack. She sees a beggar and realizes he is a man called Iwakichi Osamu Takizawa who used to work for her parents, now burned on the face and partially blind. She visits him at his home and asks about his family. His grandson, Tar, is now in an institution. She visits the institution and finds the children barely have enough to eat. Takako offers to take Iwakichi and his grandson back to the island, but he refuses, running away.Takako then goes on to visit Natsue Morikawa, who was another teacher at a kindergarten where she used to teach, and is now a midwife. Natsue has been rendered sterile by the atomic bomb blast and she is discussing adopting a child. Natsue and Takako visit the site of the kindergarten, which is now destroyed, and Takako decides to visit the students of the kindergarten. ........

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