4 real historical locations · Japan
A 1990 American TV film depicting the aftermath of the atomic bombing from multiple perspectives — Japanese civilians, American prisoners of war, and a German Jesuit priest. One of the first productions to show the bomb's human consequences in unflinching detail.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Japan.
The 1990 TV film depicts the Hiroshima bombing through the experiences of survivors — including American POWs held in the city and Japanese civilians — in th...
At 8:15 AM on 6 August 1945, the Enola Gay dropped 'Little Boy' over Hiroshima. The bomb detonated 600 metres above the Shima Surgical Clinic, near the Aioi Bridge. Approximately 12 American POWs were killed in the bl...
View location →Survivors flood the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital — one of the few buildings still standing — as doctors and nurses work on the injured with almost no medicin...
The Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital survived because it was built of reinforced concrete. Staff treated over 10,000 patients in the first days. Doctors initially called the radiation symptoms 'Atomic Bomb Disease'.
View location →Three days after Hiroshima, Fat Man destroys Nagasaki. The film expands its scope to follow survivors in both cities as Japan's government debates surrender ...
Fat Man killed 39,000–80,000 in Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. Emperor Hirohito's recorded surrender broadcast on 15 August — the first time most Japanese had heard his voice — ended the Pacific War.
View location →The Catholic Urakami Cathedral, the largest in East Asia at the time, stands 500 metres from Fat Man's hypocentre. The congregation gathered for the Feast of...
Nagasaki's Urakami district was home to Japan's oldest and largest Christian community, descended from Hidden Christians who practised in secret for 250 years. The cathedral's ruins stood until 1958.
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