1952 · drama · antiwar
Children of Hiroshima
Directed by Kaneto Shindō1h 37m1952
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
Our read: Children of Hiroshima (1952) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · antiwar entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama / antiwar, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
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