Gembaku no ko

Children of Hiroshima. JP 1952. PC: Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Mingei. D+SC: Kaneto Shindo. Starring Nobuko Otowa (Takako Ishikawa). 97 min. Kawakita Memorial print. Viewed in Bologna, Lumière 2, 2 July 2008. - A strong fictional approach to the Hiroshima disaster through a young lady teacher who returns to her home town and wants to take to her island a young boy whose parents died in the disaster and whose grandfather is blind and horribly burned. Direct, effective, emotional, with lots of documentary interesting passages.