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The film presents a succession of inanimate images of the Genbaku dome, the Peace Memorial in the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

To the gentle, haunting music of Current 93 (‘Larkspur and Lazarus’), some 650 images scroll past, all centred on the architecture of this symbolic edifice, the only building still standing after the atomic bomb exploded on the city on 6 August 1945.

The selected images offer a vision of the building and a panorama of the city over the period from 1914, when the building was constructed, to 2006. The explosion of the bomb gives way to a white screen after the forty-fifth frame. The film then slowly moves on to the devastated city and, from the reconstruction stage onwards, resumes its original pace before accelerating towards the end.

Genbaku Dome has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996.

Jean-Gabriel Périot - 2007 - Nijuman no borei [WEB].mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/1C8870FA8D5C912/Jean-Gabriel_Periot_-_2007_-_Nijuman_no_borei__WEB_.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Jean-Gabriel Périot – Nijuman no borei AKA 200 000 fantômes AKA 200 000 Phantoms (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

For his latest film, Yoshida turned once more to melodrama as a means of sensitively engaging a difficult political issue, here the devastating legacy of the Hiroshima bombing. Mariko Okada stars, in her 154th film, as the eldest of three women trying to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together. A shared memory of the Hiroshima disaster draws the three generations together in a search back to the very site of the atomic trauma that unites them, with Hiroshima standing in as a figure for the limit point of the national imagination. Among Yoshida’s more classical films, Women in the Mirror is an assuredly stylish late work that carefully balances the three women’s stories as interlocking pieces of a complex psychological and historiographic puzzle.

Women.in.the.Mirror.2002.NTSC.DVDRip.DD2.0.x264-Q0S.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 9 min
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https://nitro.download/view/8848928E9BC8E40/Women.in.the.Mirror.2002.NTSC.DVDRip.DD2.0.x264-Q0S.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, French

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The complicated relationship between physicist Leo Szilard, scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves. Assigned to oversee the project, Groves chooses Oppenheimer to build the historic bomb. However, when World War II inspires the government to use the weapon, Szilard reconsiders his opinions about atomic warfare.

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An accurate picture of a chilling piece of history
Arnold Harris23 June 2000
Day One by far is the best and most accurate full-scope portrayal of the events and people who ushered in the then-fantastic dawn of nuclear warfare. Perhaps it is the best portrayal merely because it is the most accurate and wide context picture of the what happened behind the scenes from 1933 to 1945. I was 11 years old and a schoolchild in Chicago that early August day 1945 when the world learned of the nuclear explosion over Hiroshima, to be followed up by the relatively forgotten “afterthought” atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki a few days later. Now, at 66, I can look back on 1933-1945 and the age of cold war-enhanced nuclear terror that followed it in some broader and clearer perspective.

Day One is actually three sequential and somewhat overlapping stories. The first story could be labeled “the Nuclear Theoreticians and Dreamers”. It is essentially the story of Leo Szilard, Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller and a few other academics, mostly European Jews who fled to the west as refugees from the Europe that Adolf Hitler was taking over and threatening. Their interest was essentially a nuclear weapon that could be used to counter the one they expected Hitler to develop.

Almost from the moment the United States government began taking a serious interest in their work, just prior to the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941, commenced “the Project”. With this commenced a series of major experiments in applied science and industrial engineering for purposes of creating the raw materials of atomic weapons — Plutonium and Uranium 235 — and for designing and building the actual bombs and trigger mechanisms needed to turn scientific theory into nuclear explosive reality. This succinctly describes the Manhattan Project, code name for the biggest and best kept secret in history, operated at a vast, hidden desert facility near Los Alamos, New Mexico under control of the brilliant Dr Robert Oppenheimer and the hard driving US General Leslie Groves.

From about the time Harry S Truman succeeded the dead Franklin Roosevelt as US president in April 1945 — three months before the day of Trinity — codename for the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico in the early morning hours of July 16, 1945 — the project came under full control of the civil and military leadership of the wartime United States: Truman himself, secretary of state James Byrnes, secretary of war Henry Stimson, chief of staff George C Marshall, Fleet Admiral William Leahy and a few others, formed into a committee to decide national policy for the use of the shortly expected super weapons. General Groves and Dr Oppenheimer were members of this select committee, and their suggestions drove the policy that committed the United States to actual use of the bombs against Japan, which still fought on after the death of Adolf Hitler and the complete destruction of National Socialist Germany. But the true controlling power was in the hands of Byrnes and Truman himself. They were determined to end the bloody war against Japan — and gain diplomatic mastery over Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union — through use of the most overwhelming weapons in human history. Besides, they argued, how could the Truman administration justify to the United States Congress spending the then-princely sum of $2 billion and deploying scores of thousands of manpower, developing a weapon that we could never dare use against a real enemy — at a time when there was one American combat casualty for every two Japanese on every island that this country had invaded over the past two years? The horror of it is that it is still a compelling argument even today, 55 years later. So, against the futile arguments of some of the early nuclear theoreticians, the ultimate weapons were used — for the first and so far only times — twice in one week in August 1945 and thereby instantly ended World War II

Day One is told in the remorselessly cold and nondramatic style of documentary history. The dialogue from the meetings presided over by Byrnes and Stimson was taken direct from the released historical records. The color film of the Trinity explosion in New Mexico was real, not re-created. The film of the flight of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that released the Hiroshima bomb, was the authentic black and white film made during the flight. The voices over the plane’s intercom — “My God, what have we done?” — are all real. The utter reality of it all has glued me to my seat and riveted my attention through three or more viewings.

Day.One.1989.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/9E5E2D3C2494047/Day.One.1989.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Summary:
Ryuich, the survivor when bombing in Nagasaki has the amazing document of those tragic at the order, it is record of explosion of an atomic bomb on August 9, 1945 11:02. He has made this record at five-year age on the tape recorder of the father. The sound of a bomb injures mentality of the young man, causes him almost physical pain, but gradually he finds in is mute also a consolation. Over time Ryuichi becomes we will gain the idea to recreate this awful sound that his mind and its life threatens.

NN-891102.1999.Dvdrip.x264-CepHeuS.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 15 min
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https://nitro.download/view/5414BDC1777087A/NN-891102.1999.Dvdrip.x264-CepHeuS.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Russian

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A somber, visually distilled, and deeply affecting portrait of the human toll and uncalculated tragedy of nuclear holocaust. In contrast to Shohei Imamura’s characteristically unrefined, primitivistic, and subversively bawdy cinema, the film is shot in high contrast black and white, creating a spare and tonally muted chronicle of dignity, survival, community, and human resilience. Through recurring literal and figurative images of regression, Imamura conveys a dual meaning, not only in the community’s noble attempt to rebuild Hiroshima and return to a semblance of normal life after the annihilating bombing but also in their collective gradual and systematic erasure from Japanese society through long-term effects of radiation sickness, infertility, cultural (and geographic) isolation, and social stigmatization.

The black rain in the title refers to the combination of ash, radioactive fallout, and water that fell one or two hours after the explosion. There have been other books and films about the dropping of the atomic bomb but none as unique and powerful as this one. Based on a novel by Masuji Ibuse who gathered information from interviews and the diaries of real-life bomb victims, the film depicts how an entire family is affected psychologically as well as physically by the bomb years after the original explosion. It is a horrifying vision but one that resonates with deep compassion for humanity.

Shohei Imamura - (1989) Black Rain.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/4AFF81998AD8D32/Shohei_Imamura_-_(1989)_Black_Rain.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/1a6f393afc2fbb2c8c2382a3e5dca4d8/Shohei_Imamura_-_(1989)_Black_Rain.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb’s effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn’t able to move on.

DVD label: Kadokawa
DVD5 / DVD9: DVD5
DVD Format: NTSC
DVD Audio: DD 2.0
Program(s): DVDFab
Menus: Untouched
Video: Untouched
Audio: Untouched
DVD extras: Untouched
Extras contain: Trailer, Stills Gallery
DVD runtime(s) (main feature and extras): 01:35:40(Feature), 00:03:03(Trailer)

https://nitro.download/view/2EAE8D8BB84CBD0/A_Night_to_Remember_1962_480p_JPN_DVD_NTSC_DD_2.0-WNTRM.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

The post Kôzaburô Yoshimura – Sono yo wa wasurenai AKA A Night to Remember (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In 1946, shortly after the atomic bombings, an American army team shot a documentary about ‘defeated Japan’. Reel 11004 concerning Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be classified top secret for 36 years. Mirabelle Fréville has found it and edited it to denounce the first censorship in nuclear history.

451MB | 19m 00s | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7EC7F407B84BB3C/La.bobine.11004.2020.720p.WEB-DL.H.264.AAC-PTerWEB.mkv
or
https://fikper.com/sa5P4DjXrW/La.bobine.11004.2020.720p.WEB-DL.H.264.AAC-PTerWEB.mkv

Language:Japanese,English
Subtitles:English intertitles

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