$White Light\Black Rain: The Destruction Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki script$

White Light\Black Rain: The Destruction Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Synopsis: As global tensions rise, the unthinkable threat of nuclear war has become very real--and very frightening. Through the powerful recollections of the survivors of the atomic bombs that leveled two Japanese cities in 1945, this film presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first--and hopefully last--uses of thermonuclear weapons in war. Directed by Oscar(R)-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki (1990's 'Days of Waiting'), 'White Light, Black Rain' provides a comprehensive, moving account of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the unique points of view of the people, both Japanese and American, who were there.

Genre: Documentary

Director(s): Steven Okazaki

Actors: Harold Agnew, Shuntaro Hida, Kiyoko Imori, Morris Jeppson

Production: HBO

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations.


IMDB:: 8.4
Rotten Tomatoes:: 100%

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Year:: 2007
: 86 min
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What historical event
occurred on August 6, 1945?
l don't know. Do you?
l'm bad at history.
l don't know.
l don't know.
l don't know.
l don't know.
Do you?
We don't know.
Something important
happened?
An earthquake?
For a very long time,
l was afraid
to talk about
my experience.
Why did l survive?
l was so close
to ground zero
l've come to realize
the reason l'm alive
is to tell people
what happened,
so they'll understand.
A popular magazine
asked me
to create a comic
about my life.
The response
was so great
the editor asked me
to turn it into
a full-length project.
That's how ''Barefoot Gen''
got started.
The bright flash.
We were hit by the blast.
l was 6 years old.
l remember it so well.
lt had such a huge
impact on my life.
l remember every detail.
lf l had to recreate it
as a movie set, l could.
At the time,
l was 10 years old.
And l was 9.
Our orphanage
had about 20 babies.
We were the oldest kids,
so we had to help
with the infants--
washing and folding
the diapers.
We were friends
before the bomb.
Since we were
little, right?
We grew up together.
Our bond
comes from eating out
of the same pot everyday.
l was in the first grade
when the war began.
The war dominates
every single memory.
l really don't have
any happy memories.
All l remember
is the fear
and the running
and hiding.
The memory of
being with my family
has faded away.
l carried this pain
in my heart
that l couldn't
talk about.
Even now,
l can't say
my sister's name aloud.
lt hurts too much.
l was 1 3 at the time.
No one was allowed to
see the emperor's face.
He was considered
a descendant of God.
At school, there was
a portrait of him.
We would bow
and pay our respects.
That was
the Japanese way.
l was 20 years old.
l was a university student.
As men,
lt was our duty
to go to war--
to die,
to fall like petals
off a flower--
that was our destiny.
The army was in Hiroshima,
so whenever the soldiers
passed us
we had to bow to them.
The air was full
of patriotism.
Bravely, l left my hometown
and went off to war.
ln 1945, l was a doctor
at Hiroshima
Army Hospital.
At the start of
the war with America
many Japanese
were excited
believing that
we were winning.
But then...
their sons began dying,
one after another.
Mothers and wives
began to feel
an increasing anxiety
as the war continued.
Though the government kept
saying we were winning,
the people realized
Japan couldn't win.
Even as kids we understood,
we were losing the war.
Any fool could see it.
We didn't have anything.
We needed everything.
We didn't even have shoes.
How could we win the war?
Lets see, at the time,
l was 8 years old.
During the war,
Japan confiscated all of Korea's rice.
So there was nothing
for Koreans to eat.
They had to come here
or starve.
That's how l encountered
the bomb.
There was a slogan
that said:
''Desire nothing,
until we win the war.''
Everyday, combat
planes flew over,
but we just
continued playing.
Each airplane had
a particular sound.
l could tell the difference.
Everyday,
from morning to night
we heard air raid sirens,
but Hiroshima
wasn't bombed.
l wasn't afraid.
Even when
the B-29s flew over,
l would just say,
''Oh, there's an airplane.''
Hiroshima was fairly safe
until the atomic bomb.
On the day of the bomb,
the air raid
siren sounded,
but then it
was cancelled.
So everyone came out
and went on with the day.
l was 14 years old.
l was digging out
an air raid shelter
in preparation
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Steven Okazaki

Steven Toll Okazaki (born March 12, 1952 in Venice, California) is an American filmmaker. He is Sansei Japanese American (3rd generation) and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has received a Peabody Award and been nominated for four Academy Awards, winning an Oscar for the documentary short subject, Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo (1990). more…

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