Day of the Western Sunrise is a Japanese-language, English-subtitled, animated documentary film that follows three surviving crew members of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon No. 5). On March 1, 1954, this small wooden Japanese tuna fishing vessel was exposed to the United States’ Castle Bravo thermonuclear test near the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, where it stood eighty-five miles away from the epicenter of the blast. Because pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had circulated widely in newspapers and movie theaters, the fishermen knew they were witnessing the detonation of a nuclear weapon when a brilliant orange and red sky gave way to a gigantic mushroom cloud. After that instant, the lives of these twenty-three Japanese fishermen would never be the same.