Hiroshima


1h 30m 1995

Brief Synopsis

Depicts the events that led the United States to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. Combines documentary footage, dramatized reenactments and interviews with survivors and key military personnel.

Film Details

Genre
Historical
War
Release Date
1995
Location
Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Tokyo, Japan

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 30m

Synopsis

Depicts the events that led the United States to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. Combines documentary footage, dramatized reenactments and interviews with survivors and key military personnel.

Cast

Hiroshi Shimizu

Roger Dunn

Kazuko Imai

Takunori Kanda

Richard Zeman

Ron Gabriel

Yuzo Hayakawa

Kazuki Ogawa

Naoki Yoneda

Koji Imaizumi

George Robertson

J W Carroll

Eleanor Yeoman

Masakazu Kondo

Tom Rack

John Moore

Osamu Kato

Kenneth Welsh

Takashi Matsumoto

Minor Mustain

Masao Ishiguro

Senzaburo Makimura

Sakae Koike

Zenichi Inagawa

Kazuo Arai

Masahiro Noguchi

Arthur Holden

Kurt Reis

Saul Rubinek

Leni Parker

Kazuo Kato

Kenji Takakura

Akira Kuto

Gary Crawford

Yuusake Mine

Ken Maeda

Jeffrey Demunn

Yasunaga Kobayashi

Giichi Sugimoto

Naohiko Umewaka

Arima Mitsutaka

Allen Altman

Shigeru Kôyama

Ken Jenkins

Charles Powell

Jaimz Woolvett

Genki Kobayashi

Dennis St. John

Alain Goulem

Chian Oi

Keiko Ito

Toshi Shioya

Setsuko Kawaguchi

Tim Post

Akira Terao

Hajime Tawara

Paul Stewart

Erwin Potitt

Mitsuro Yamazaki

Kohji Takahashi

Hajime Taniguchi

Philip Pretten

Noboru Mitani

Leon Pownall

Wesley Addy

Katsuhiro Haneda

Kei Sato

Cedric Smith

Jason Meloche

Serge Christiaenssens

Kensho Yamamoto

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Harry Standjofski

Len Watt

Mark Camacho

Haruka Sugata

Hiromasa Ikegami

David Hemblen

Tetsuya Itoh

Vlasta Vrana

Shinya Suzuki

Michael Mcgill

Muromaru Koda

Frank Schorpion

Bungo Fukawa

Seann Gallagher

Ryuichi Horibe

Kusuo Kita

Kayoko Moriyasu

Teddy Lee Dillon

Sheena Larkin

Robert Morelli

David Siscoe

Akira Hamada

Martin Neufeld

Strahil Dobrev

David Gow

Hisashi Igawa

Martin Sims

Colin Fox

Al Vandecruys

Motoharu Tamura

Richard Masur

Amanda Strawn

Daisaku Akino

Frank Fontaine

Taizo Ariga

James Bradford

Dan Corby

Bernard Behrens

Tatsuo Matsumura

Asao Matsumoto

Yoshimizu Nasu

Ayami Kashima

Gary Reineke

Timothy West

Dom Fiore

Lynne Adams

Motohiro Toriki

Hiroshi Nakagawa

Kazumasa Takemoto

Film Details

Genre
Historical
War
Release Date
1995
Location
Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Tokyo, Japan

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 30m

Quotes

Trivia

Miscellaneous Notes

Aired in United States August 6, 1995

Released in United States on Video July 30, 1996

Telecast in three different formats: in color on August 6, 1995; in black-and-white on August 24, 1995; and then as a two-part color miniseries in September 1995.

Began shooting April 1995.

Completed shooting May 1995.

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August 6, 1995 marks the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.