¡Hola, comunidad!
Tengo este documental desde hace tiempo, y si no me había animado a abrirle ficha hasta ahora es porque
está narrado en inglés. Pero realmente Susumu Hani se merece que esta pieza tenga ficha. Si por estar narrado en inglés no debería estar en el foro, la borro sin problemas.
"This rare documentary is one of the very last efforts from preeminent documentarist/activist Susumu Hani best known for his feature films. This one is a short documentary about the 1945 atomic bombing and its devastating consequences. The film came out of the "10 Foot Movement". A movement organized by the Japan Peace Museum, which mobilized Japanese citizen activists to buy back small segments of film footage of the effects of the atomic bomb from the U.S. National Archives. The film combines recent footage of survivors of the atomic bomb with American archival footage, portraying the sorrow of atomic bomb survivors in the cold war period. The dramatic protagonist of this documentary is Taniguchi a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing. He is seen as he patiently awaits his turn in a hospital waiting room. He was 16 at the time of the bombing and spent the next 35 years in and out of hospitals for treatments and cure for his tumor mutilated body. Through Taniguchi's red thread we see images of the time following the bombing. These are mostly footage shot either by Japanese civilians or by US military departments most of which have been censored for years since they contain some of the most striking and disturbing images most likely to affect the arms race between US and other countries at the time. This movie which feels even more contemporary today prevents us to forget that both bombings caused 60.000 deaths in Hiroshima and 30.000 in Nagasaki, but during the following 5 months those deaths rose respectively to 140.000 and 60.000. From the testimony of survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki echos an appeal that yields a prophetic meaning: "The dreadful agonies and sufferings that we went through should never be repeated in the future". Also to be mentioned, the music score is by none other than maestro Toru Takemitsu"
(dimax9, usuario de Asiatorrents.)
Como dice el texto, esta pieza se montó con parte del material que Japón recopiló gracias a la Ten-Feet Campaign, que, auspiciada por
el Museo Memorial de la Paz de Hiroshima, apoyó y financió la recuperación de imágenes (casi todas de carácter científico, aunque suene a aberración) sobre la bomba atómica que EEUU desclasificó pasados los años.
El documental es durísimo y combina esas imágenes (que sirvieron para muchas otras producciones, pues se terminaron recuperando muchos, muchos minutos de metraje) con las visitas médicas de uno de los afectados.
El inglés de la voz que lo narra es bastante básico y se entiende perfectamente. Lo repito: es durísimo.
Si realmente la voz en off inglesa hace que este documental, en el que a pesar de todo la habilidad de Susumu Hani se nota, no debiera estar aquí, me disculpo y elimino la ficha.
¡Saludos!
