Children of Hiroshima (1952)
Genbaku no ko
97 min
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
- Release date
- August 6, 1952
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Akira Ifukube
Where to watch
Free
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Cast
- Nobuko Otowa as Takako Ishikawa
- Osamu Takizawa as Iwakichi
- Masao Shimizu as Toshiaki - Takako's Father
- Jūkichi Uno as Kôji
- Akira Yamanouchi as (as Akira Yamauchi; como Akira Yamauchi)
- Jun Tatara
- Tsutomu Shimomoto as Natsue's Husband
- Hideji Ōtaki
- Eiken Shōji
- Shinsuke Ashida
- Shin Date
- Chikako Hosokawa as Setsu - Takako's Mother
- Tanie Kitabayashi as Otoyo
- Tomoko Naraoka
- Yumi Takano
- Fukuko Sayo
- Eijirō Tōno
- Yûsaku Terashima
- Taiji Tonoyama as Owner of a ship
- Kan Yanagiya
- Yuriko Hanabusa as Oine
- Takashi Itô
Crew
- Kaneto Shindō · Director
- Arata Osada · Writer
- Kaneto Shindō · Writer
- Kōzaburō Yoshimura · Producer
- Akira Ifukube · Composer
- Takeo Itô · Cinematographer
- Yoshitama Imaizumi · Editor