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The Children of the Atomic Bomb
- Fifty Years Later

Broadcast on August 6, 2003/45minutes

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Genbaku no Ko or 'Children of the Atomic Bomb', released in 1952, was produced by the Hiroshima-born film director Kaneto Shindo. It is a film about some children battling poverty and the effects of the atomic bomb. A number of children who actually experienced the blast appeared in the film. This program features a reunion fifty years later between two of these individuals and 90-year-old Shindo. One is today a narrator at the Peace Memorial Park, while the other is helping create a computerized model of the Sarugaku-cho district, which was at ground zero. This program looks at the lives these individuals have led over the past fifty years and why they feel it necessary to continue to pass on their memories to the younger generations.
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