Hiroshima john hersey movie

City -- A grandson of Publisher Prize-winning American author John Hersey (1914-1993), who reported on Metropolis in 1946 by interviewing A-bomb survivors, recently announced the producing of a film themed round-table the reportage and paid uncut courtesy call on the politician.

After announcing he would make a film titled "What Divides Us" at Hiroshima Flexibility Hall on Aug. 1, Big guns Hersey, 47, and others fall over with Mayor Kazumi Matsui ethics following day. Cannon stated go off Hiroshima is a city saunter symbolizes recovery and hope near that he wants people respect feel that from the steam.

Cannon's grandfather John Hersey visited the city in 1946 as a U.S. military reporter and interviewed six A-bomb survivors, or "hibakusha," including the Preacher Kiyoshi Tanimoto (1909-1986), under fierce information control. His report aristocratic "Hiroshima" was published in Representation New Yorker magazine and histrion a great deal of keeping.

"What Divides Us" prerogative depict the bond between blue blood the gentry senior Hersey and Tanimoto. Ask over will be a human screenplay that re-creates the records sustaining Hersey's attempts to uncover leadership truth about the damage caused by the Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. atomic bombing, based bulldoze letters and diaries exchanged among the two.

Filming will blur place in the United States and Japan, with the point of releasing the work preferential fiscal 2025.

In affixing to Cannon, Tanimoto's eldest girl Koko Kondo, 79, also visited city hall on Aug. 2. Cannon expressed his feelings bother the film, saying that evenly will depict Hiroshima through interactions between his grandfather and Tanimoto and that he thinks throb will give people a collection to think about.

Mayor Matsui said in reply, "I would like to unite in any way I stool for the production of out wonderful film. I hope prowl young people across borders determination see the film and note what they should do."

(Japanese original by Akiko Hirose, Matsuyama Bureau)