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    Children of Hiroshima / Genbaku no ko (1952) [ReUp]

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    Date: 22 Jan 2015 14:09:00
    Children of Hiroshima / Genbaku no ko (1952) [ReUp]

    Children of Hiroshima (1952)
    DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:35:30 | 4,20 Gb
    Audio: Japanese AC3 1.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English, Japanese
    Genre: Drama, War

    Director: Kaneto Shindô
    Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Masao Shimizu

    Otowa is the teacher who returns to his home in Hiroshima only to find that the city hich has barely begun to heal from the consequences of the atomic bomb. As he gets in touch with some people he had thought lost, we see the devastation inflicted on not only Hiroshima's people and building but also on the Japanese psyche. It's story told with compassion and a subtle use of flashbacks, Shindo's film is a haunting look at something many would rather forget or gloss over as a necessary act of evil during a terrible war. The film won Untied Nation award in 1956 organize by British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

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    Original title: Genbaku no ko (1952)

    Children of Hiroshima / Genbaku no ko (1952) [ReUp]

    … Shindô achieves what he wants by combining both objectivity and melodrama. Flashbacks are utilized to depict the change that was caused by the bombing. Most disturbing among these flashbacks is the depiction of the few minutes before the explosion, which Shindô captured with both the objectivity of a documentarian and the emotionality of one who is actually affected by the tragedy. There, he uses bizarrely formed tableaus of bloodied and injured women, their babies crying, and destruction within the perimeter of the frame, to create a lasting image of how terrifying and hellish it must have been caught in the middle of a sudden twist of fate. The effective musical scoring by Akira Ifukube accompanies the imagery with emotional precision.

    Children of Hiroshima / Genbaku no ko (1952) [ReUp]

    At times poignant, but mostly overbearing and pushy, the revelation of Hiroshima's orphans' plight unfolds in uneven levels. There are times when Shindô seems to be pondering too much on a point already driven at, and there are times where Shindô quickly steals away a moment wherein much emotional resonance is still brewing. The narrative arcs might be a bit creased at the edges, and could have been reduced to less melodramatic effects. However, the import of the film is derived because of its value, as a belated warning that, as one of the children states in a surprisingly innocent and peaceful demeanor before finally dying, "war is evil."
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    Children of Hiroshima / Genbaku no ko (1952) [ReUp]

    Early on in Children of Hiroshima, a rapid series of snapshots of the titular city flicker on screen. It's eight in the morning on August 6, 1945, and the most recent air-raid alert has passed and, all around, residents are busily finishing their morning routines: children hustle off to school, dutiful housewives prepare lunch packs, and the workday commute buzzes into action. The scene is strangely placid considering we're in late wartime Japan, and this unnerving sense of calm only serves to heighten the cruel dramatic irony unfolding for a viewer primed for a nuclear disaster. For a moment, director Kaneto Shindo plays into our mounting sense of dread; a clock ticks loudly, its doomsday metronome hurriedly ushering in another round of sunny imagery (a glistening river, a crawling baby) framed by off-kilter cinematography foreshadowing a reality soon to be knocked off its steady footing. A simple flash blots out the screen, and as its haze recedes a bewildering parade of bare chests, streaked with blood, mingles with a macabre theater of bent limbs, frozen howls, and empty stares.

    Children of Hiroshima / Genbaku no ko (1952) [ReUp]

    Shindo seems on the verge of delving full speed into Eisenstein-inspired agitprop cinema (which would have made the Japan Teachers' Union, the leftie commissioners of this project, beam with pride), but here he abruptly shifts gears. Taking inspiration from the film's source text (a collection of firsthand schoolchildren's accounts also titled Children of Hiroshima), Shindo decides to embrace a much smaller, personal story. We follow a schoolteacher's return to Hiroshima four years after the disaster as she attempts to reconnect with the three surviving children from her kindergarten class. Along the way, the angelic young woman—played by frequent Shindo collaborator and wife Nobuku Otowa—happens across a former employee of her father's, blinded in the blast and presently homeless, and a fellow teacher rendered infertile by radiation.

    Children of Hiroshima / Genbaku no ko (1952) [ReUp]

    Having little more to offer than a compassionate ear, she travels the city as a sort of a listening apostle, collecting sundry stories of woe. These tales are occasionally underlined with deep wails atmospherically dropped in by Akira Ifukube's dark score, but more often the action plays with a simple realism more befitting a documentary. There's something flat and disappointingly episodic about her journey from victim to victim, yet taken on aggregate, a picture of a society wholly wrecked emerges, and by the time a child utters the truism, "War is the ultimate evil," the veracity of sentiment is deeply felt as well as understood. That Shindo achieves this without resorting to direct allegory or polemical treatise is an impressive feat indeed.

    Children of Hiroshima / Genbaku no ko (1952) [ReUp]

    For much of the film, Otowa is little more than a vessel for sympathy, anxiously looking to fill herself to the brim with the tears of survivors. Reassuring her former students and friends of their relative good fortunes, she consistently manages to stoically spit out words of encouragement through a wooden smile. As we begin to wonder if benevolent ignorance is the disheartening best we can expect to salvage from the atomic ruins, Shindo offers a revelatory final act, as striking for its clearheaded call to action and promise of a better future as for its cruel admonition that the past can never truly be undone.
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    Children of Hiroshima / Genbaku no ko (1952) [ReUp]

    Filmed in 1952 shortly after the end of American occupation, Children of Hiroshima reflects the contemplative, often apocalyptic, testimonial cinema of the hibakusha - the survivors of the atomic bomb. By interweaving real-life accounts of actual survivors with the observations of a fictional protagonist, Kaneto Shindo creates a deeply personal, yet objective chronicle of the world's harrowing first encounter with the destructive potential of the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945: the highly formalized montage of everyday life unfolding against the sound of a ticking clock that resolutely moves ever closer towards the appointed bombing time of 8:15 AM; the haunting, reenacted shot of an anonymous victim's "vaporized" charred outline on an outdoor staircase; the flashback image of children reciting nursery rhymes in circular formation that cuts to two broken, sequentially rotated shots of the former kindergarten teachers standing on a vacant lot of the former playground.

    Children of Hiroshima / Genbaku no ko (1952) [ReUp]

    Based on a collection of thoughtful poems and stories written by the young survivors of the Hiroshima bombing (compiled by Arata Osada), Children of Hiroshima is a pensive, compelling, and provocative account of the residual effects and incalculable human toll of the atomic bomb's tragic and indelible legacy.
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