‘Hiroshima after Fukushima’

Please click here to view “Hiroshima after Fukushima” from the homepage of Moving Image Archive, National Library of Scotland.

Please click here to view the earlier version, “Hiroshima in 2013” on the homepage of Moving Image Archive, National Library of Scotland.

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‘I have seen everything in Hiroshima’, says a French actress.

‘You have seen nothing in Hiroshima’, replies a Japanese actress.

This dialogue is repeated in the film, ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,‘ (Alain Resnais, 1959).

What do you see in Hiroshima, especially after the Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011?

Do you see everything in Hiroshima?

Do you see nothing in Hiroshima?

This is a revised version of ‘Hiroshima in 2013‘ (2013, 22 mins)), which was edited by Hajime Kobayashi and written and directed by Yushin Toda

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Camera: Fumi Nakabachi
Music: Marius Pirhonen
Written, Directed and Edited by: Yushin Toda
Producer: Fumi Nakabachi and Yushin Toda
22 minutes
In English and in Japanese with English subtitles
©2018 Japan Desk Scotland

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This is a part of its documentary films production.

This has been screened:

[‘Hiroshima in 2013‘]

(1) on Wednesday 5 February 2014 at University of Strathclyde Chaplaincy Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Japan@Strathclyde 2013/14;

(2) on Monday 14 April 2014 at Department of Japanese Language and Literature (the second year students), University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;

(3) on Tuesday 15 April 2014 at Department of Japanese Language and Literature (the third year students), University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;

(4) on Thursday 1 May 2014 at University of Strathclyde Chaplaincy Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of ‘Fukushima, Hiroshima, Fukushima‘;

(5) on Wednesday 11 June 2014 at Interfaith Room, University of Glasgow Chaplaincy, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Fukushima, Hiroshima, Fukushima;

(6) on Saturday 21 June 2014 at GZO Peace Institute, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, The Philippines;

(7) on Tuesday 24 June 2014 by Interfaith Center for a Culture of Nonviolence in Bauan, Batangas, The Philippines;

(8) on Saturday 28 June 2014 at Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, The Philippines (class for the final year students on Politics);

(9) on Friday 6 February 2015 at University of Strathclyde Chaplaincy Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Japan@Strathclyde 2014/15;

(10) on Thursday 23 April 2015 at University of Strathclyde Chaplaincy Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Japan@Strathclyde 2014/15;

(11) on Thursday 11 June 2015 at the Interfaith Room, University of Glasgow Chaplaincy, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of ‘Here and there (seven documentaries)’;

(12) on Tuesday 18 August 2015 at the International Discussion Group held at the Interfaith Room, University of Glasgow Chaplaincy, Glasgow, Scotland;

(13) on Wednesday 3 February 2016 at University of Strathclyde Chaplaincy Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Japan@Strathclyde 2015/16;

(14) on Wednesday 26 October 2016 at University of Strathclyde Chaplaincy Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Japan@Strathclyde 2016/17;

(15) on Wednesday 16 May 2018 at Moving Image Archive, National Library of Scotland, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Japanese Journey@Kelvin Hall’; and

(16) on Thursday 12 July 2018 at Oshima National College of Maritime Technology, Yamaguchi, Japan;

[‘Hiroshima after Fukushima‘]

(17) on Thursday 22 November 2018 at Department of Japanese Language and Literature (the first-year students), University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;

(18) on Wednesday 13 February 2019 at Moving Image Archive, National Library of Scotland, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, as part of Japanese Craft Documentaries;

(19) on Tuesday 4 June 2019 at University of Glasgow Chapel, as part of Japanese Craft Documentaries;

(20) on Friday 25 October 2019 at University of Glasgow Chapel, as part of Japanese Craft Documentaries;

(21) on Thursday 5 December 2019 at Sikeside Primary School, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, as part of a workshop on Japan for P7/6 class;

(22) on Sunday 8 December 2019 at Edinburgh Japanese Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, after the service;

(23) on Friday 25 March 2022 at Fordbank Primary School, Renfrewshire, Scotland, as part of a joint workshop for two P7 classes on Hiroshima; and

(24) on 13 March 2023 at Fordbank Primary School, Renfrewshire, Scotland, as part of a workshop for a P7 class on Hiroshima.