Film: Children of Nagasaki
Timing: Saturday, 11th August at 2.00pm
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Duration: 127 minutes
©1983/Shochiku = Hori Kikaku /color
Short Synopsis: During the World War II, on August 7, 1945, a doctor in the radio-active department at Nagasaki Medical School, Nagai Takashi, evacuates his 11-year old son, Seiichi, and his 5-year-old daughter Kayano, to the suburbs where his wife’s mother, Tsumo, lives. He is fearful of their lives dues to the increasing air raids. He confesses to his wife, Midori that he will not live long because he has been exposed to radiation through his research and experiments. Midori begs Takashi to stay in bed, but he continues examining the patients.