2012 | USA | Documentary

Hibakusha (2012)

  • English English 43 mins
  • Director | Steve Nguyen, Choz Belen
  • Writer | Steve Nguyen, Ivan Tsang, Choz Belen
  • Producer | Steve Nguyen, Dean Matsuda, Brian L. Tan

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

This film is inspired to bring awareness to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in hopes that a nuclear tragedy like this will never happen again. “Hibakusha” is a Japanese term which refers to a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The film was built around the story of Kaz Suyeishi, an 84-year-old survivor, who recalls her memories as an 18-year-old Japanese American student when the atomic bomb was dropped on her hometown of Hiroshima. Not only is the story compelling, but so is the form. Well into the project Steve Nguyen decided it shouldn’t be a documentary with talking heads, it needed elements to bring to life the emotion of the time. And so the animated documentary was born, taking Kaz’s memories and transforming them into animated reenactments.

Hiroshima Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Nuclear tragedy Japanese American Animated Documentary Historical Awareness Animation Documentary Film World War II Japan
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