Children of Hiroshima (1952) on Netflix
Takako Ishikawa, a schoolteacher, returns to Hiroshima for the summer holiday to visit her family's graves. In the ruined city she recognizes a beggar as Iwakichi, once her parents' servant.
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Plot summary
Takako Ishikawa grew up in Hiroshima, where the atomic bomb killed her parents and her younger sister. She now teaches on an island, and during the summer holiday she crosses back to the city to visit their graves. Among the people she passes is Iwakichi, a beggar who once served her family, his face burned by the bomb and his sight almost gone. He lives in a shanty, and his grandson Tarō is being raised in an orphanage. Takako stays with Natsue Morikawa, a former colleague from the kindergarten and now a midwife, left unable to have children by the bomb. The two women walk to the site where the kindergarten stood, and Takako decides to call on the pupils she once taught there.
Cast
- Eiken Shoji
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Children of Hiroshima (1952)
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- The Japan Teachers Union, which had commissioned Children of Hiroshima, criticized the film's "outsider" view of the bombing and its lack of clear political criticism, then commissioned a rival film, Hiroshima (1953) by Hideo Sekigawa, more graphic and more critical of both American and Japanese leaders.
- The U.S. occupation of Japan censored the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the tragedies that followed; the occupation ended months before Children of Hiroshima was released.
