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Shohei Imamura's devastating Japanese film follows a young woman whose chance of marriage is destroyed by radiation sickness after the Hiroshima bombing. Based on Masuji Ibuse's novel, it chronicles the lingering horror that continued long after August 1945.
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The 1989 Japanese film by Shohei Imamura depicts the lives of Hiroshima survivors years after the bomb — the lingering radiation sickness, social stigma and ...
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 killed approximately 80,000 people immediately; by the end of 1945 the death toll had risen to 90,000-166,000. Survivors (hibakusha) faced radiation illness, social dis...
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