Stories Set in Hiroshima

Japan 1943 during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home.…

Yusuke Kafuku a stage actor and director still unable after two years to cope with the loss of his beloved wife accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki an introverted…

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of…

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Shigematsu Shizuma lives with his senile mother his wife Shigeko and his niece Yasuko in a village near Fukuyama. He his wife his niece and his close friends in the village were present at the atomic bombing of…

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers cops and gangsters lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile the ambitions of mad dog…

Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully last -- uses of nuclear weapons in war. Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic bomb survivors - many who have never…

While Hirono is in prison his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.