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Day of the Western Sunrise
Content:	Documentary Film
Media Type:	DVD
Release Date:	2018
Audience:	Elementary Education Higher Education Middle/Junior High School High School
Physical Description:	(Null)
Language:	English subtitle, Japanese subtitle
Author:	Director: Keith Reimink
Subject:	Biography History Science, Technology, & the Environment
Subheading:	Atomic Bomb Environment & Policy Technology & Modernization War & Weapons
Region:	East Asia
Country:	Japan

Day of the Western Sunrise is a Japanese-language (with English subtitles) animated documentary following three surviving fishermen from the tuna trawler Daigo Fukuryu Maru, or the Lucky Dragon No. 5. Created with a mix of animation and live-action, the second full-length documentary produced by Daliborka Films, Day of the Western Sunrise introduces us to the forgotten story of the Lucky Dragon, the Castle Bravo nuclear tests, and the damage and devastation still felt in Japan 65 years later.

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