People in Japan are commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this week. As many reflect on the tragedy, a local broadcasting company is taking on a new approach to call for a world, free of nuclear weapons.

We should not lose a single human life to nuclear weapons.

http://www.htv.jp/hiroshima/index2.html

Title list

-U.S. POWS and the A-bomb (55 min. 2016) It is little known that 12 American prisoners of war died by atomic bombing in Hiroshima and the people of Hiroshima entombed them with honor. This untold story tells about the absurdity of war and atomic bombs, and furthermore, humanity beyond borders. (2016 Japan Broadcast Culture Awards second prize)

-Carved in Stone (85 min. 2015)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Hiroshima-born actress Haruka Ayase recites the last words of 321 students of Hiroshima Middle School who all died by the atomic bomb. It also covers interviews of bereaved family by a journalist Akira Ikegami.

-Ishibumi (53 min. 1969)

-Homeward Bound (73min. 1997)

-Streetcars and School Girls (48min. 2003)

-A Message from the Vanished Streets of Hiroshima (47min. 2005)

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