Hiroshima - MYIF Movie Night

At 8:15 A.M. August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb dropped in history exploded approximately 580 meters above the center of Hiroshima. Humanity had entered the "nuclear age" . In an instant, the city was reduced to a scorched plain, wiping out countless unsuspecting and innocent lives and inflicting devastation on all city functions. This unprecedented tragedy was on a completely different scale from the destruction caused by natural disasters or conventional weapons. Furthermore, the large amount of radiation that instantly produced by the atomic bomb penetrated deeply into people's bodies, destroying cells and the lives of thousands. The after effects of radiation continue to threaten the lives of the survivors even today and have caused considerable psychological damage.

In conjunction with the 61st anniversary of Hiroshima bombing and end of World War II, BM MYIF is having this movie night as the awareness of how destructive a war could be and appreciate peace. We are the post-war generation that never been through the pain caused by the war. After this viewing, all of us must feel thankful to what we have today. SAY NO TO WAR !!!

Date : 5.Aug.2006

Time : 7:30pm

Venue : BM Methodist

About the movie

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This powerful three-hour miniseries from directors Roger Spottiswoode and Koreyoshi Kurahara, about the bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II, takes a balanced view of the events leading up to that cataclysmic event, dramatizing the agonizingly difficult decisions faced by both President Truman (Kenneth Walsh) and Emperor Hirohito (Naohiko Umewaka). Interviews with real politicians, soldiers, and witnesses are also included here, adding to the program's sharp sense of history and realism.

Biography of a survivor

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The sixth day of August, 1945! A date deeply engraved on my heart, when the cruel bomb claimed so terrible a toll of precious human lives in an instant. I go cold whenever I think of that day. I am one of those many who were deprived of their irreplaceable parents, brothers, and sisters, relatives and friends. All of them died, one after another. My big brother, who had been out on labor service, is still unaccounted for. My other brother suffered serious burns >> more