2023 | Japan | Documentary

Performing Hiroshima

  • Japanese - 133 mins
  • Director | MIMA Akihiro, YAMADA Saki, KUSANO Natsuka, ENDO Mikihiro
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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A woman who lives with her partner in an apartment in Hiroshima City regularly meets her friend at the riverside to co-write poems together in MIMA Akihiro’s “A WINDOW WITH NO NANE” A woman exposed to in utero radiation about one kilometer from the epicenter of where the atomic bomb was dropped speaks into the camera as herself, her mother, and the narrator of someone else’s life in YAMADA Saki's “Represent HIROSHIMA with Hiroe” KUSANO Natsuka's “Till The End Of The Dream” depicts the daily life of a woman struggling with the loss of someone close to her. Finally, ENDO Mikihiro's “No matter where” takes up a theater group rehearsing plays about Hiroshima and a young member of their sound crew collecting sounds outdoors. An anthology of short films about Hiroshima, target of the atomic bomb, produced by the theater company Marebito no Kai as part of a larger project also including two earlier installments entitled “Performing Nagasaki” (2013-16) and “Performing Fukushima” (2016-18).

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