Eight months after its first release in the United States and the United Kingdom, the Oscar winner for Best Film “Oppenheimer” also arrived in theaters in Japan, where, however, some cinemas have displayed warning signs aimed at the public.
The film, directed by Christopher Nolan (who won the Oscar for Best Director), tells the story of the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy (who won the award for Best Actor), who leads the project Manhattan, which allowed the USA to develop the first atomic bombs which were dropped in August 1945 on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, killing more than 200 thousand people.
The film has grossed almost a billion dollars globally but until now had never been presented in the Land of the Rising Sun, despite the importance of the Japanese market for Hollywood productions. Concerns about the possible consequences of screening the film in the only country in history never bombed by nuclear weapons had in fact pushed Universal Pictures to exclude Japanese theaters from Oppenheimer's global distribution program.
In the end, however, Bitters End, a Japanese distributor of independent films, managed to obtain the distribution rights to the Oscar-winning film and announce an official release date after the Academy Awards ceremony.
Universal Pictures' doubts, however, did not seem unfounded. In fact, some cinemas in Tokyo have displayed signs outside the theaters aimed at the public warning of the presence of images of nuclear tests which may evoke the damage and tragedy caused by the bombs.
In an interview granted to the news agency Reuters before the film's release, however, the survivor of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, Teruko Yahata, said she was eager to see the film, in the hope that it could relaunch the debate on the ban on nuclear weapons.
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