Synopsis
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
137 audience votes
Key crew
- Shōhei ImamuraScreenplay
- Toshirō IshidōScreenplay
- Shōhei ImamuraDirector
- Tōru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Yoshiko TanakaYasuko
- Kazuo KitamuraShigematsu Shizuma
- Etsuko IchiharaShigeko Shizuma
- Masato YamadaTatsu
- Shoichi OzawaShokichi
- Norihei MikiKotaro
- Hisako HaraKin
- Tamaki SawaWoman in Ikemoto-ya
- Akiji KobayashiKatayama
- Kazuko ShirakawaOld Woman with White Flag
- Kenjirou IshimaruAono
- Taiji TonoyamaOld Priest
Stills
Themes
marriage proposalhusband wife relationshipbased on novel or bookatomic bombworld war iihiroshima, japanpost world war iiradiation sickness1940s1950shibakusha