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The Face of Jizo (2004)

The Face of Jizo (2004)

Drama
Release Date: 2004, July 31
Directors: Kazuo Kuroki
Countries: Japan
Production: Eisei Gekijo, Bandai Visual, NIHON SKY WAY, TV Tokyo Medianet, AOI Pro., Pal Entertainments Production, Nikkatsu Studio
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Yoshio Harada, Rie Miyazawa

Overview:

Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.

Keywords:

atomic bomb hiroshima, japan post-war chaos period