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Hiroshima No Pika / Hellfire: A Journey From Hiroshima
Content:Documentary Film
Available From:First Run Features
Media Type:DVD
Release Date:2005
Audience:Elementary Education
Higher Education
Middle/Junior High School
High School
Running Time:83 min.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (ca. 83 min.) :; sd., col. ;; 4 3/4 in.
Language:English
Author:First Run Features
Hiroshima no Pika directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto and produced by Tetsujiro Yamagami;
Hellfire produced, written, and directed by John Junkerman

Resource Library Number:EAJDVD 090
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology
Arts
History
Subheading:Artists and Craftsmen
Atomic Bomb
Children and Youth
Painting
WWII
Region:East Asia
East/West Relations
Country:Japan



Abstract:

Narrated by Susan Sarandon, Hiroshima no Pika is an animated film based on the award-winning children's book by the Japanese artist Toshi Maruki.  Through Maruki's heart-rending but beautiful water color illustrations, the film tells the story of a young girl and her family who live through the horrific bombing of Hiroshima.  Susan Sarandon lends her talent to this timely story, inspiring children to remember Hiroshima in the hope that it will never be repeated. 

Nominated for an Academy Award, Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima captures the artists Iri and Toshi Maruki in their decades-long collaboration to create a monumental testament to the effects of the atomic bomb - the Hiroshima Murals, which have been viewed by over 100 million people around the world. With engaging interviews and extended sequences of the Marukis at work, Hellfire reveals a message of hope in our nuclear age, and is a reminder of the power of art to render visible and meaningful what still seems unimaginable.  

Special features include a Gallery of the Marukis' Art and Artist & Filmmaker Biographies






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