Children of Hiroshima | Gembaku no ko | 1952 | Japanese Drama, War movie | Director Kaneto Shindo

Children of Hiroshima (原爆の子, Gembaku no ko, lit. “Children of the Atomic Bomb“) is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Kaneto Shindō. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Production The film was commissioned by the Japan Teachers Union and was based on first-person testimonies gathered by Japanese educator Arata Osada, collected in the 1951 book Children of the Atomic Bomb. The end of the post-war occupation of Japan by American forces allowed the production of works addressing the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagaski.