52 Films & TV Shows Set In Hiroshima Prefecture
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Black Rain
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sShigematsu Shizuma lives with his senile mother, his wife Shigeko, and his niece Yasuko in a village near Fukuyama. He, his wife, his niece and his close friends in the village were present at the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Shizumas look for prospective husbands for Yasuko, but find that the families withdraw on finding out she was at Hiroshima.
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Sakura-tai Chiru
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sA documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.
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Barefoot Gen 2
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sThree years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
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Superfantozzi
Hiroshima Prefecture England The 1940s The Middle AgesSuperfantozzi (1986) is an Italian film from 1986. It is the fifth film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio. In this film, Fantozzi is portrayed in a surreal historical journey, from Genesis to 1980s.
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Big Joys, Small Sorrows
Nagasaki Prefecture Hokkaido Prefecture Hiroshima Prefecture The 1980sA lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
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Insignificance
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1950s The 1940sA comedy about life, death, sex, and the Universe... relatively speaking. — Four 1950s cultural icons who conceivably could have met but probably didn't, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid progression of flashbacks and flashforwards centering on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories, and apprehensions for the future.
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Barefoot Gen
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sA story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sWell-intentioned history lesson; the decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.
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Barefoot Gen Part 3: Battle of Hiroshima
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sSecond live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
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Pica-Don
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sOn August 6th, 1945, Little Boy was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. — An animation documentary describing the tragic consequences of the A-bomb explosion in Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The flash of the A-bomb, 100 times brighter than the sun, is called "PICA", and the enormous shock wave which came right after the flash is called "DON". At the time this film was completed, it was the very first attempt in the world to deal with such a sensitive subject of Hiroshima using animation media.
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Barefoot Gen: Explosion of Tears
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sFirst live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
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Barefoot Gen
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sFirst live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1960sAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1970s The 1960sWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1950sThe sixth chapter of Jingi Naki Tatakai series With the endless power struggle. The extraordinary combination of Kinji Fukasaku and Bunta Sugawara, along with new ideas and a strong touch of realism, created the sixth movie of the series that describes 'The War of Hiroshima Gangsters' which had lasted almost 30 years after World War II. It can be called the Japanese secret post WWII history. It focuses on the ugly, violent inside struggle of the Yamamori Group of 1959 in Kure City, Hiroshima. Director Kinji Fukasaku, the master of portraying violence and humanity, said "Having making the five previous movies, I found those characters very interesting. So I took a deeper look into them this time." He made this shocking movie with high enthusiasm and revealed the core of gangster's struggle which has never been touched before.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1960sShozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1950sRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
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Welcome to the Club
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sThe picture that insults everyone regardless of race, creed or color! — An Army morale officer hits racism when he tries to put singers in an officers club in 1945 Hiroshima.
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Frankenstein vs. Baragon
🇩🇪 Germany Shiga Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Hiroshima Prefecture Gunma Prefecture The 1960s The 1940sA fearsome kaijin? A mad new antagonistic kaiju? A golden entertainment epic of Japan-U.S. collaboration! — During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.
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Mother
Hiroshima PrefectureA divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sFrom the measureless depths of a woman's emotions... — The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
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The Song of the Cart
Hiroshima PrefectureA lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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Above and Beyond
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sThe love story behind the billion dollar secret! — The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima PrefectureThe film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.
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Children of Hiroshima
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sShows 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.
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