Hiroshima | Wesley Addy, Jeffrey DeMunn

Hiroshima | Wesley Addy, Jeffrey DeMunn | As powerful as any movie or documentary ever created

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Hiroshima

	Hiroshima Wesley Addy, Jeffrey DeMunn Platinum Disc, 2005 average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent history

Is this a joint Canadian-Japanese production? The film kept me interested for 180 minutes. Historically, it seems very accurate.

As powerful as any movie or documentary ever created

Hiroshima is part documentary and part film, blended seamlessly to create one of the most amazing pieces in cinema history. This is not even debatable.

Aside from the historical significance, and the countless lessons learned from WWII and the A-bobm, this movie takes a personal approach not usually seen or discussed. There are realistic accounts of the time and difficulties during the war, as well as actual interviews from not only American soldiers, but also survivors from Hiroshima. Argue or debate the usage of either bomb, but the tales of those involved lend an awe-inspiring insight that demands attention and respect. One particular tale of an American soldier who had been hit by an explosion of some sort was very powerful. He held his own guts in his hands, and eventually was carried away on a stretcher. Moments later, when another weary soldier was searching for a place to rest, and the wounded soldier's guts were in lying beside him, the interviewee told of someone literally sitting on his stomach. The man's innards were outside of his body, being sit upon, and he merely told the other soldier to move them aside if rest was needed.

Perhaps what impressed me most about the movie is the production value. The grainy footage from decades ago merges with actual movie footage so well that at times, the difference between the two is indiscernable. It's very easy to become immersed in the story, and forget that some participants are actors.

I can't recommend this movie highly enough.

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Hiroshima is Well Deserving of Great Praise

You must obtain a copy of this film if the bombing of Hiroshima is of any interest to you whatsoever. I am amazed by the high quality of the acting and historical research. Much time and effort is spent dealing with the decision making that occurred before President Harry Truman gave the order to bomb the Japanese city. Why have you probably not heard about "Hiroshima" before this time? I am sure that the leftist establishment intensely disliked the finished product. It contends that America cavalierly decided to kill thousands of Japanese primarily because of their supposed racial inferiority. Needless to say, nothing could be further from the truth. The Japanese military turned outright nihilistic when defeat seemed inevitable. National suicide was preferred over surrender. Most assuredly, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved the lives of perhaps millions of people.

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Extraordinary Scholarship

The history involved in making this movie is so detailed and correct that years after having seen it for the first time, I run across obscure facts that tie directly to scenes. For example, very recent discoveries are beginning to show that the Japanese were quite close to developing an atomic bomb themselves, and that this fact was hidden both by them and the occupation government. At one point in the movie there is a line where Kido informs the Emperor that "the scientist said that he knew it was an atomic bomb when he saw it from the air". Only recently has it been learned that the chief scientist in the Japanese atomic bomb program did indeed fly over Hiroshima and identified the source of the damage due to is intimate knowledge of the subject. This was confirmed by an interview with his assistant several years after this movie was made. The dialogue from Hiroshima on both sides is taken directly from primary source materials, and is transcribed with such accuracy that simply watching the movie can provide insights when doing related research. It is a pleasure to see such exceptional scholarship in a primarily entertainment medium.

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Excellent drama documentary

This is a very well crafted drama, interspersed with real footage and occasional interviews. The acting is top notch, the writing is excellent (as is to be expected from John Hopkins) and it neatly shows the steps that led to the dropping of the atomic bomb - a form of paranoia on both sides that is perhaps inevitable after so many years of war. It's quite a sympathetic view of both sides - looking at both the US and Japanese povs - perhaps too sympathetic - who can say? Either way, it's a great piece of drama.

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