05 October 2020, 05:30 am
FOCUS JAPAN
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
FOCUS JAPAN
Screening of NHK documentary films on Japan’s history, literature, art, culture and heritage. Organised with the support of NHK World and Embassy of Japan, New Delhi
Searching for the Standing Boy of Nagasaki
(50 min; 2020; English)
A young boy carries on his back the lifeless body of his younger brother, in the devastated city of Nagasaki after the atomic bomb explosion. An American military photographer, Joe O’Donnell, took a picture of him standing stoically near the cremation pit. This film follows the fate of thousands of “atomic-bomb orphans” and their struggles to survive the aftermath of World War II
