IN PRODUCTION | DRAMA, HISTORY
In the ashes of nuclear war, forgiveness was their only choice
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The Story
From Nagasaki's smoldering ashes, Urakami ascends as a hallowed crucible, its scorched offering for the war crimes of nations weaving a transcendent path of forgiveness, redemption, and healing, guiding the world to peace.
長崎のくすぶる灰の中から、浦上は聖なる坩堝として立ち上がる。国家の戦争犯罪への焼け焦げた供物が、許しと救済と癒しの超越の道を紡ぎ、世界を平和へと導く。
Key Cast
Daniel Carter, Jouji Fukahori, Daigo Hirono, Tomei Koishi Tagawa, Haruko Tanaka, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jawaharlal Nehru, John Paul II, Harry S. Truman, George Benedict Zabelka*
*Key cast are unveiled as they are being attached to the film. Main Crew
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First Promo Poster
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Gallery
Technical Details
SOUND: Dolby Surround 96kHz 5.1
ASPECT RATIO: 1.85:1
LENGTH: 90+ mins
RATING: R
SUBTITLES: English, Japanese
ASPECT RATIO: 1.85:1
LENGTH: 90+ mins
RATING: R
SUBTITLES: English, Japanese
Director's Statement
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There are films one chooses to make and there are films that choose the filmmaker.
Urakami is one of them. I did not go looking for this film. Instead, the film found me. Urakami slowly took possession of me until the story could not be told any other way. Fat Man’s detonation over Urakami in 1945 was not just about genocide. It was about life – and the extraordinary witness of a community that continues speaking urgently, to this day, to a world that insists on living with the threat of nuclear annihilation constantly hanging over all our heads. |
The deeper I entered Urakami, the more evident it became that reality bore little resemblance to the dominant public narrative about the bombing of Nagasaki. Sifting through archives, listening to the hibakusha, and reading primary document after primary document, one witness led to another and each document opened the door to the next. With every step, the film moved further away from the story I intended to tell and closer to the one Urakami has been quietly telling all along.
Urakami is not a conventional documentary. It is an epic symphony moving from rupture to evidence, from evidence to witness, from witness to judgment, and finally to contemplation, widening each time until the physical, human, ethical, legal, and moral questions no longer belong to history alone but to all of us. I followed where the work led. Now I give it to you. It is not only Urakami’s story. It is ours. 
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Research Bibliography
A living bibliography documenting the historical, theological, philosophical, visual, and cinematic research informing Urakami.
View bibliography.
View bibliography.
Thanks
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SPECIAL THANKS
James Delia Michael A. Levine THANKS
Hidetsugu Aihara Piero Costa Raymond D'Addario Fumio Kino Joe Roger O'Donnell Tomei Koishi Tagawa Tade Wolfe Yosuke Yamahata |
OTHER THANKS
Atomic Archive Caritas Tokyo Catholic Bishops Conference of Japan Harvard Law School Library Japan Society Junshin Girls High School Nagai Takashi Memorial Museum Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Nagasaki City Archive Nagasaki City Peace Promotion Division Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims National Archives and Records Administration National Showa Memorial Museum The Asahi Shimbun The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum The Japan Times United Nations Audiovisual Library United States Department of Energy United States Department of State, Office of the Historian United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
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