Hiroshima (1953 film)

Hiroshima
Yumeji Tsukioka in Hiroshima
Directed by	Hideo Sekigawa
Screenplay by	Yasutarō Yagi
Based on	Children Of The A Bomb: Testament Of The Boys And Girls Of Hiroshima by Arata Osada
Produced by	Takeo Ito
Starring	Yumeji Tsukioka Eiji Okada Yoshi Katō Isuzu Yamada
Cinematography	Yoshio Miyajima
Edited by	Akikazu Kono
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production company	Japan Teachers Union Production
Distributed by	Hokusei
Release date	7 October 1953 (1953-10-07) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Hiroshima (ひろしま) is a 1953 Japanese docudrama film directed by Hideo Sekigawa about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its impact on a group of teachers, their students, and their families. The film was based on the eye-witness accounts of the hibakusha children compiled by Dr. Arata Osada for the 1951 best-selling book Children Of The A Bomb: Testament Of The Boys And Girls Of Hiroshima (原爆の子, Genbaku no ko), and was filmed with the support of tens of thousands of Hiroshima residents.^[3]

Produced with the backing of the Japan Teachers Union, which had also produced the 1952 film Children of Hiroshima, the film's "anti-American" stance and content prevented it from gaining a wide release in Japan.^[3]