The 70th anniversary of the dawn of the “Atomic
Age” will be marked by Cinema Libre on Aug. 4 with the DVD debut of documentary
filmmaker Masaaki Tanabe’s Message From Hiroshima. Narration is by George Takei.
On Aug. 6, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress named the Enola Gay
lumbered over the Japanese mainland island of Honshu and from over 30,000 feet
at 8:15 in the morning dropped “Little Boy.”
Its detonation about 2,000 feet above the city instantly killed 30
percent of the city’s population.
Using state-of-the-art CGI, coupled with stock footage from the
period and interviews with survivors from the blast that morning, Tanabe and
his technical team have recreated Hiroshima and the center of the blast area
(the Nakajima district) as it was at that time. The busy streets, homes and businesses where
they — the “hibakusha” (survivors) — lived and worked has been literally
brought back to life in Message From Hiroshima.
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