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Stories Set in Nagasaki
Nagasaki is a hilly harbor city on Japan's western island built around a deep bay and slope streets. Its centuries as Japan's sole open port under seclusion plus the August 1945 atomic bombing layered foreign faiths onto grief, giving its stories a distinct mournful openness. Rhapsody in August and White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki sit on its shelf. Open Nagasaki on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 6 books and 4 movies set in Nagasaki.
Rhapsody in August
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha whose husband was one of 80000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother…
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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…
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the…
Cherry Magic! THE MOVIE
Adachi and Kurosawa are now in a relationship. While they are happily dating and enjoying their office romance Adachi is offered a job transfer. Adachi is happy to have the chance to do the work he wants but the new job…
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the…
Dearest
A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a prison officer in Hokuriku. At the age of 53 Eiji loses…
A Pale View of Hills
In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she…
The Ring of Earth
Jack Fletcher is on the run. With no sensei to guide him, he has just his wits and his swords against many new and unknown enemies, as he journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki and perhaps home. . .…
Burnt Shadows
Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man is waiting to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of love and betrayal.Hiroko Tanaka is…
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
Trinity, the debut graphic book by the gifted illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts in vivid detail the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb. This sweeping historical…
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