| Pikadon | |
|---|---|
.jpeg.webp) A screenshot from the film. | |
| ピカドン | |
| Directed by | Renzo Kinoshita |
| Screenplay by | Sayoko Kinoshita |
| Produced by | Renzo Kinoshita Daizaburo Hayashi Toshihiro Komori |
| Cinematography | Satoru Isobe |
| Music by | Reijiro Koroku Production Nova |
Production company | Studio Lotus |
Release date | 1978 (Annecy International Animated Film Festival) |
Running time | 8 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
Pikadon (Japanese: ピカドン Hepburn: Pikadon, "atomic bomb"[1]) is a 1978 Japanese short animated documentary war film anime,[2] produced and directed[3] by Renzo Kinoshita.[4]
Plot
The movie starts with depiction a normal morning in Hiroshima.
Although there is no protagonist, most focus is centered around a child playing with a paper plane. At the same time he throws his paper plane from his balcony and it falls, the atom bomb detonates, unleashing an unprecedented amount of destruction over people.
People burn to death, survivors’ skin melts. This scene ends with the view a small burned figure near the dome, presumably the child.
Last sequence of the work shows the child throwing his plane again, the paper plane flying instead and passing over modern-day Hiroshima as a shadow.
Legacy
This work is reported to be shown at Japanese schools as a reminder of the nuclear bombings. It is considered an obscure short film.
References
- ↑ jisho.org Japanese-English dictionary ピカドン. Consulted on December 12, 2019.
- ↑ "Pica don - Court-métrage (1979) - SensCritique". www.senscritique.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ↑ "Pica-don (ピカドン, 1978)". nishikataeiga.blogspot.cl. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ↑ "Pikadon (1979) - A short animated film showing the nuking of Hiroshima in terrifying detail. Still shown in Japanese schools today as a rememberance(sic) of the bombs being dropped. • r/ObscureMedia". reddit. 26 October 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
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