The film “Oppenheimer” has finally premiered in Japan, the country where two cities were destroyed by nuclear weapons 79 years ago.
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Reactions from Japanese moviegoers were mixed and very emotional, AP reported.
Toshiyuki Mimaki, who survived the bombing of Hiroshima when he was three, said he was fascinated by the story of Oppenheimer, who was often called the “father of the atomic bomb” as he led the Manhattan Project.
“What were the Japanese thinking when they attacked Pearl Harbor, starting a war they could never hope to win?” he said in a telephone statement.
Mimaki is now chairman of the atomic bomb victims’ group and saw “Oppenheimer” at a preview event.
“Throughout the movie, I waited and waited for the Hiroshima bombing scene to happen, but it didn’t happen,” Mimaki said.
The film does not show directly what happened on the ground when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where about 100,000 people were instantly reduced to ashes. Additional thousands of people, mostly civilians, died in the following days.
Instead, the film focuses on Oppenheimer as a person and on his inner conflicts.
(Srna/WORLD)