BBC Atomic People
The decision by the United States to drop atomic bombs on two Japanese cities - Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 and Nagasaki three days later - was one of the most momentous and destructive in world history.
Now, nearly 80 years later, this unique film gathers the testimony of some of the last 'Hibakusha', survivors of the two atomic bombs, before their voices are lost forever. With an average age of 85, most Hibakusha were children when the bombs were dropped.
Combining their personal accounts with archive footage, the film features a significant number of voices from this shrinking group, the only people left on earth to have survived a nuclear bomb, while exploring how their experiences continue to affect them to this day.
Now, nearly 80 years later, this unique film gathers the testimony of some of the last 'Hibakusha', survivors of the two atomic bombs, before their voices are lost forever. With an average age of 85, most Hibakusha were children when the bombs were dropped.
Combining their personal accounts with archive footage, the film features a significant number of voices from this shrinking group, the only people left on earth to have survived a nuclear bomb, while exploring how their experiences continue to affect them to this day.
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00:00:00You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You never happy when skies are grey.
00:00:16How did you learn to speak English?
00:00:26I'm not asking your advice.
00:00:30When I fight, I use a pistol.
00:00:37Another interesting movie was Tarzan.
00:00:48I thought American movies were interesting.
00:00:53But I didn't like American movies.
00:00:57But when I saw American movies, I wanted to kill them.
00:01:28I was a detonator.
00:01:34Seven of my cousins died.
00:01:41In Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
00:01:45about 210,000 people died during that year.
00:01:49Of those 210,000 people,
00:01:53210,000 of them were in a drama.
00:02:09We were not alone.
00:02:13We were with many people of different ages.
00:02:17We lived in different places.
00:02:29I was a detonator.
00:02:33I was a detonator.
00:02:37Hello.
00:02:39Hello.
00:02:43My name is Chiyoko Iwanaga.
00:02:46Iwa means cancer.
00:02:49Naga means eternal.
00:03:03I was a detonator.
00:03:06I was a detonator.
00:03:08I was a detonator.
00:03:11After that,
00:03:14there were no more detonators on Earth.
00:03:19I was 97 years old.
00:03:22I was 99 years old.
00:03:30I wanted to tell people
00:03:35that I was a detonator.
00:03:38If I didn't tell people the truth,
00:03:42I don't think they would understand.
00:03:48I was a devastating victim.
00:04:08I'm asking you, what was life like before the bomb was dropped?
00:04:13If you close your eyes and think back to before the war,
00:04:17what do you see?
00:04:25I remember a lot of things.
00:04:32I remember playing all the time.
00:04:35It was a lot of fun.
00:04:42In the summer, I would play in the sea all day.
00:04:46I would pick flowers and jump into the sea.
00:04:54I didn't know anything scary.
00:05:00I was young.
00:05:02We were told not to go to school
00:05:06because of the movies.
00:05:10I remember taking off my school uniform
00:05:14and wearing a normal kimono
00:05:18and entering the theater.
00:05:23It was a great adventure for me
00:05:27to watch a movie in secret.
00:05:32It was a great experience.
00:05:37When I was young,
00:05:41I felt that Japan was a strong country.
00:06:02Japan was united in the strategy of terror.
00:06:07December 7, 1941
00:06:11A date that will live forever.
00:06:15The end of the war.
00:06:19The end of the war.
00:06:23The end of the war.
00:06:27The end of the war.
00:06:31The end of the war.
00:06:34The end of the war.
00:06:38The end of the war.
00:06:45Japan was attacking the Pearl Harbor.
00:06:50Japan was attacking the Pearl Harbor.
00:06:54At that time, Japan was winning.
00:06:58Pearl Harbor was part of a huge area
00:07:01simultaneous attack.
00:07:03Thus, the strategy planned in Berlin becomes clear.
00:07:06Neural conquest.
00:07:31Tell us about Hiroshima, what was it like during the war?
00:07:46There were a lot of soldiers in Hiroshima.
00:07:53They passed in front of my house.
00:07:57But I had to bow to them.
00:08:00They were great soldiers.
00:08:05I think everyone had the same thought at that time.
00:08:12I wanted to be a soldier.
00:08:15That's how I was educated.
00:08:19One day, my teacher told me to bring an English textbook.
00:08:25Then my teacher threw me into the incinerator and burned me.
00:08:30I cried.
00:08:34The United States and the UK are very bad countries.
00:08:40It's like a devil's land.
00:08:45They train you to stick a bamboo spear into a straw doll with a board that looks like an American soldier's picture.
00:08:56One thing I can't forget is that there was a detention center nearby.
00:09:06It was a Western-style detention center.
00:09:26The soldiers were so pitiful.
00:09:32It was the first day of the war.
00:09:36I felt sorry for them.
00:09:40I came to school thinking that the Japanese army was winning the war.
00:09:47When I was in my third year of high school,
00:09:51there was no more candy in the candy shop.
00:09:55The siren was ringing.
00:09:59Young men and women went to the battlefield every day.
00:10:06So there were only children, women, and elderly men left.
00:10:21Everyone realized perfectly well that although the German war was over, the Japanese war was not.
00:10:52The war is not over yet.
00:10:56The war is not over yet.
00:11:00The war is not over yet.
00:11:04The war is not over yet.
00:11:08The war is not over yet.
00:11:12The war is not over yet.
00:11:16The war is not over yet.
00:11:21The war is not over yet.
00:11:30There can be no peace in the world until the military power of Japan is destroyed.
00:11:37Only surrender can prevent the kind of ruin which they have seen come to Germany
00:11:43as a result of continued useless resistance.
00:11:50One day, a billboard was hung in Hiroshima.
00:11:56It said,
00:11:59If you want to live, go to Hiroshima.
00:12:19The billboard said,
00:12:23I'm a true man.
00:12:26I said, I'm a true man.
00:12:29I laughed and said, I'm a true faggot.
00:12:33The teacher rolled the billboard up and threw it into the incinerator.
00:12:40I had to think seriously about it.
00:12:54Hiroshima, Japan
00:13:04We all knew that our houses might be burnt in the war.
00:13:12We took our valuables to the countryside.
00:13:18This is my father.
00:13:21This is my mother.
00:13:24She was a kind mother to her children.
00:13:27However, the war intensified.
00:13:30She tried to feed her children, even if she didn't eat.
00:13:39This is what she looked like when the atomic bomb fell.
00:13:48It was a strong impression.
00:13:56We were working around the atomic bomb in August.
00:14:04I was 15 years old then.
00:14:08Hiroshima, Japan
00:14:14These are the students who were killed in the war.
00:14:38I think I woke up around 7 or 7 a.m.
00:14:46I got ready to go to school and left home.
00:14:57I went to an elementary school.
00:15:00The principal and the teachers were talking to each other.
00:15:07It was so hot that everyone came to the shade of the trees around the school.
00:15:18I entered the classroom.
00:15:21My seat was in front of the window.
00:15:29Around 8 p.m., I took a break in the shade.
00:15:34I thought I had to sweat.
00:15:37I went to the beach and had a late-night snack with my friends.
00:15:43The boys shouted,
00:15:45B-29! B-29!
00:15:47When we looked up at the sky,
00:15:50the boys were shouting,
00:15:52B-29! B-29!
00:15:54They were playing around.
00:15:58In the blue sky,
00:16:00the American B-29 was flying high in a silver light.
00:16:07Hiroshima, Japan
00:16:12My mother and I went outside the house to feed the rabbits.
00:16:18We brought the rabbits' food.
00:16:25We had just made a U-turn.
00:16:29There was a beautiful cloud of white behind the plane.
00:16:38Outside the classroom,
00:16:40a huge beam of light came through the window.
00:16:46I thought it was beautiful.
00:16:48But I couldn't see anything.
00:16:51Yellow, orange, and silver.
00:16:55I couldn't express it with words.
00:16:58A beam of light came in.
00:17:02I thought the sun had set, so I closed my eyes.
00:17:07The roof of the house was broken.
00:17:11There was a hole in the ceiling.
00:17:17I took off my jacket.
00:17:20I was staring at the beam of light.
00:17:26The hair on my head was flying around.
00:17:36The atomic bomb was called the Pika-Don.
00:17:41It was a beam of light.
00:17:44It could hit 300,000 kilometers in one second.
00:17:49And the sound of the Pika-Don was...
00:18:00I was thrown into the huge beam of light.
00:18:06It was as if it had rained.
00:18:09The window of the classroom was broken.
00:18:13The beam of light was flying around.
00:18:17It hit the walls, desks, and chairs in the classroom.
00:18:25The ceiling was falling.
00:18:27I hid under the desk.
00:18:31The house was falling from above.
00:18:34My mother was carrying me under her stomach.
00:18:37I was lying on the floor.
00:18:39When I tried to get up,
00:18:41a palm tree fell on me and covered me.
00:18:45I was blown into the river.
00:18:47I was blown away and lost consciousness.
00:18:51I was hit and lost consciousness.
00:19:15The center of Hiroshima city was engulfed in a vacuum.
00:19:23So everything around us was being sucked in and out.
00:19:29The area was expanding to 17,000 meters in size.
00:19:36It was pitch black.
00:19:39I couldn't see 10 centimeters in front of me.
00:19:43I spread my fingers out in front of me.
00:19:47I tried to count each of my ten fingers.
00:19:54But I couldn't see them.
00:19:57It was pitch black.
00:19:59I was standing still in the river.
00:20:02I could see the weeds growing.
00:20:07I was about 20 to 30 meters away from the house.
00:20:14I was lying on the floor.
00:20:17I was blown into the river.
00:20:20I was blown away and lost consciousness.
00:20:24I was lying on the floor.
00:20:26I was lying on the floor.
00:20:28I was using water.
00:20:30I had a friend there.
00:20:33He was lying here.
00:20:36He turned to me and asked me what my face looked like.
00:20:42When I looked at him,
00:20:44his face turned to me and he was hanging on a rag.
00:20:49His face was hanging.
00:20:52He said,
00:20:54He said,
00:21:01I heard people screaming.
00:21:06I heard people screaming.
00:21:09I heard a herd of cows mooing.
00:21:16I heard a herd of cows mooing.
00:21:22I heard a herd of cows mooing.
00:21:27When my mother noticed,
00:21:30she jumped off the roof and ran outside.
00:21:36Her clothes were all bloody.
00:21:40It was pitch black in the morning.
00:21:45She was holding me and evacuating.
00:21:48She kept asking me questions.
00:21:51She kept asking me questions.
00:21:53She kept asking me questions.
00:22:05I was able to move because I was under the desk.
00:22:10I was able to move because I was under the desk.
00:22:13I was sandwiched between my hands and feet.
00:22:17I couldn't move.
00:22:19I crawled out of the classroom to the corridor.
00:22:25I asked my friend to help me.
00:22:39After about an hour,
00:22:43I was able to see in front of me.
00:22:48A 20-year-old woman was walking towards me from the center of the city.
00:22:59A 20-year-old woman was walking towards me from the center of the city.
00:23:04Even now,
00:23:09I feel like I'm about to collapse.
00:23:16I feel like I'm about to collapse.
00:23:21I thought,
00:23:23I thought,
00:23:25I thought,
00:23:29My body was covered in blood.
00:23:34My body was covered in blood.
00:23:42I asked her where the hospital was.
00:23:46I asked her where the hospital was.
00:23:49I heard the sound of B-29 in the sky.
00:23:55I thought I might die again.
00:24:00It was 4 o'clock in the morning.
00:24:06A child was still in a cradle on the bed.
00:24:09A child was still in a cradle on the bed.
00:24:11It sounded like the sound came from hell.
00:24:16It sounded like the sound came from hell.
00:24:18I was out of my mind.
00:24:21They threw their guns on the ground and shouted things that I couldn't understand.
00:24:32I looked back and saw that the town was completely gone.
00:24:51The flames were rising from everywhere.
00:25:05The town was completely destroyed.
00:25:16I couldn't move at all.
00:25:27I couldn't move at all.
00:25:35I couldn't speak, so I couldn't feel like a human being.
00:25:42At that time, it started to rain.
00:25:56It hurt so much.
00:26:07It was like mud at that time.
00:26:16My father came to pick me up at school.
00:26:22I was carried on my father's back and went home.
00:26:28I can't forget the scene of hell until I get home.
00:26:39Most of the people who ran away to our house had their clothes burned.
00:26:50Their skin was burned, and their eyes were hanging with a blast of wind.
00:27:03They were holding a baby who had been burned black like charcoal.
00:27:09I think she was a young mother.
00:27:12Her back was burned.
00:27:17There were a lot of people like that on the street.
00:27:22They were clinging to me.
00:27:25But there was nothing I could do.
00:27:31There was only one girl, who was about the same age as me.
00:27:37Her skin was burned, and so was her face.
00:27:43Her eyes were swollen.
00:27:49I looked at her from behind.
00:27:53She was lying on the ground.
00:27:56Her eyes pierced my heart.
00:28:02I can't forget it.
00:28:05It's been 78 years.
00:28:09Her eyes, her head, and her heart have been burned.
00:28:21Since then, her face began to swell.
00:28:26One of her eyes was crushed and swollen.
00:28:30I finally arrived at my house, but there was nothing there.
00:28:39Everything was crushed and burned.
00:28:46I stood in front of the house, and I was in a daze.
00:28:55I didn't know what was going on at the time.
00:29:01My mother was burned to death under the house.
00:29:12The last image of my mother was taken in the courtyard.
00:29:32I was always sad and pitiful.
00:29:42The people who were exposed to the bombing within 500 meters were not 100% alive.
00:30:06Most of them were wiped out.
00:30:10Almost 90% of the people who were exposed to the bombing within 500 meters were dead.
00:30:22How far was your house from the center of the explosion?
00:30:25It was 500 meters away.
00:30:27It was right in front of my house.
00:30:33My mother was blown away from the kitchen to the front door.
00:30:47I was saved by being sandwiched between a lot of things in the house.
00:30:56My brother found me.
00:31:00He told me that I was here.
00:31:04I was alive, but I cried.
00:31:12My mother said that she didn't remember wearing a bandage like this.
00:31:21This is me.
00:31:24I am my brother.
00:31:35This film was found 28 years ago.
00:31:42Thank you.
00:31:45Good morning, brother.
00:31:47I'm counting on you again today.
00:31:54I still think that my brother is my savior.
00:32:01The scene of the evacuation was very tragic.
00:32:09There were many dead bodies on the train tracks.
00:32:22People who were crossing the bridge and people who were sitting on the stone steps of the bank
00:32:28were buried with their shadows on the stone steps.
00:32:38There were many dead bodies lying on the ground.
00:32:43There were many dead bodies lying on the ground.
00:32:48There were many dead bodies lying on the ground.
00:33:02It smelled bad all over the city.
00:33:06From our elementary school, there was a black smoke coming up from under the hill.
00:33:17I carried my friend's body, who was injured, to the school in Ujina.
00:33:30We came back to the school with a few people dragging something like a long wakame on our legs.
00:33:40I wondered what the wakame was.
00:33:43The wakame stopped at our ankles.
00:33:54We had to apply the old oil we had at home.
00:33:59That was the only thing we could do.
00:34:04People died one after another.
00:34:08The senior students who survived were told by the teacher to dig a corner of the school,
00:34:16and I had to help them with my hands.
00:34:21I felt sorry for them.
00:34:24I felt sorry for them.
00:34:35When the fire started to burn, the body started to move.
00:34:43My legs and hands started to move.
00:34:48I saw some of the dead bodies shivering.
00:35:00The skeleton was pink.
00:35:07It was a pale pink color, just like the petals of a cherry blossom.
00:35:18I burst into tears and picked up the skeleton while crying.
00:35:23The teacher told me to bury it in the ground.
00:35:31Hiroshima
00:35:42I think that the present-day Hiroshima is a city that developed
00:35:48on the remains of the atomic bombing victims.
00:36:00At the age of 15,
00:36:05I learned about the cruelty of the world.
00:36:12It's an indescribable sadness.
00:36:17Hiroshima
00:36:29Before the atomic bombing, many people lived in the hypocenter of Hiroshima.
00:36:39Now it is a park, a peaceful park.
00:36:48We lived in the hypocenter.
00:36:54I moved here about 20 days after the atomic bombing.
00:37:03If I hadn't moved there, I wouldn't have lived like this.
00:37:14Hiroshima
00:37:24There are many souls of people who died in the hypocenter in the park.
00:37:31There are many bones and souls of people who died in the park.
00:37:41There are many trees in the park.
00:37:45In the summer, cicadas cry.
00:37:52They cry, saying,
00:37:55Help me, please give me water.
00:37:59Help me, please give me water.
00:38:02I can hear the voice of the cicadas.
00:38:14My hands grew longer and my legs were pulled.
00:38:19I remember that.
00:38:25I want to forget, but I can't.
00:38:30Memories are in my body.
00:38:37That's the hard part about the atomic bomb.
00:38:42Hiroshima
00:38:52A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima
00:38:59and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
00:39:02That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT.
00:39:08It is an atomic bomb.
00:39:11It is the harnessing of the basic power of the universe.
00:39:15We have spent more than $2 billion on the greatest scientific gamble in history.
00:39:22And we have won.
00:39:25What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history.
00:39:33Well, it's a terrible story.
00:39:38It's a terrible story.
00:39:41War makes people like this.
00:39:46So, war is...
00:39:50How can I put it?
00:39:52It makes people lose their humanity.
00:39:57The enemy is no longer human.
00:40:01If they do not now accept our terms,
00:40:04they may expect a rain of blood from the air,
00:40:07the like of which has never been seen on this earth.
00:40:12The end is not yet.
00:40:15Hiroshima
00:40:29In Nagasaki,
00:40:31the newspaper the next day only wrote
00:40:35that a new type of bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima.
00:40:42At that time,
00:40:44we had no idea that it was an atomic bomb or a nuclear weapon.
00:40:52We had no idea that it would cause so much damage.
00:41:12Nagasaki, Japan
00:41:33In August, we had a summer vacation.
00:41:39So I was at home.
00:41:42I happened to have an organ at home.
00:41:47I heard a low sound.
00:41:53My grandmother who was in the kitchen heard it and said,
00:41:59Stop it!
00:42:01Stop it! The American B-29 is coming!
00:42:23At that moment,
00:42:25Mr. Heizai looked up.
00:42:28He pointed out that it was a Japanese plane.
00:42:46As soon as I closed the lid of the organ and tried to get up,
00:42:51I heard a loud explosion.
00:43:07A huge blast blew through my house.
00:43:15At that moment, even as a child,
00:43:18I realized that I was dead.
00:43:22I was dead.
00:43:25I was blank.
00:43:45Nagasaki, Japan
00:44:05All night long, the mountains in our village turned red.
00:44:14From around midnight,
00:44:18a ship brought corpses from Nagasaki to the coast.
00:44:24The corpses were lined up in a row.
00:44:29Half of the corpses were already dead.
00:44:34All the people at Nagasaki University were students.
00:44:39Some of them said,
00:44:41Open your eyes and give me some water.
00:44:49Some of them opened their eyes and said,
00:44:51Open your eyes and give me some water.
00:45:00There were people watching them.
00:45:04They said, If I give you water, you will die soon,
00:45:08so please don't give me water.
00:45:12I thought I wanted some water.
00:45:21I had a towel around my neck,
00:45:26so I put some water in the towel.
00:45:34I was too scared to look at them properly.
00:45:41So I just closed half of my eyes
00:45:46and dropped the water in their mouth.
00:45:56I heard a voice saying, Thank you.
00:46:03I still think about that time
00:46:07when I gave them a bucket full of water.
00:46:17When I think about that time,
00:46:23I give water to Buddha morning and night.
00:46:30I can still feel the water
00:46:35that they gave me.
00:46:42I pray for the victims of the atomic bombing.
00:46:47Please give me a lot of water.
00:46:51Namanda, namanda, namanda, namanda, namanda.
00:46:59I pray for the victims of the atomic bombing.
00:47:05Namanda, namanda, namanda, namanda, namanda, namanda.
00:47:17I found out that two of my aunts lived near the atomic bombing site.
00:47:26So I went there three days later to find them.
00:47:32I crossed the mountain.
00:47:41I went out into the forest,
00:47:45out into the pass,
00:47:48and when I got to a place where I could see the town of Urakami,
00:47:56there was nothing there.
00:48:02I thought, Wow, this is amazing.
00:48:15There were a lot of factories,
00:48:18but they were all made of iron.
00:48:22They were all crushed.
00:48:27When I got to my mother's house,
00:48:31there was only one piece of iron.
00:48:35When I pressed it,
00:48:38I could see that it was really swollen.
00:48:46Everyone was burning it on their stomachs.
00:48:50It was really hard.
00:48:53The smell of burning a living thing was terrible.
00:49:02After you've cleaned up the burnt stuff,
00:49:07you have to clean it up again.
00:49:11It's not completely burnt,
00:49:15so you have to clean it up again.
00:49:20The bones are human-shaped.
00:49:24When I saw that,
00:49:27I wasn't scared,
00:49:30I was just sad.
00:49:37Two or three days ago,
00:49:40I went to see my mother
00:49:43to ask her to give me some rice.
00:49:51I saw her ten days ago,
00:49:54and the bones were all over her.
00:49:59I cried a lot.
00:50:05I felt like I was going to break down.
00:50:11I haven't cried that much.
00:50:16I thought it was a fleeting thing.
00:50:24I drank, ate,
00:50:28laughed,
00:50:30cried,
00:50:33and worked.
00:50:36When I thought that the bones were gone in a flash,
00:50:41I didn't know what to say.
00:50:51I think I was in a state where I could go crazy.
00:51:11Died in the 1930s
00:51:15The Japanese government was unable to prevent the atomic bomb,
00:51:20so the atomic bomb was used to destroy the Japanese army.
00:51:25The atomic bomb was used to destroy the Japanese army.
00:51:31The atomic bomb was used to destroy the Japanese army.
00:51:37The atomic bomb was used to destroy the Japanese army.
00:51:43The atomic bomb was used to destroy the Japanese army.
00:51:54In the bay of Tokyo itself,
00:51:57the complete and formal surrender of Japan.
00:52:07A better world shall emerge off of the blood and carnage of the past.
00:52:14Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world.
00:52:20Tokyo, Japan
00:52:37The emperor was a god called Arashidogami.
00:52:42I think he believed that he could win Japan with that power.
00:52:51Everything is for the emperor.
00:52:56No matter how tough it is, he will do his best.
00:53:02But after the war, the emperor made a declaration of humanity.
00:53:09He said he was not a god.
00:53:13But I think it was too late.
00:53:17Japan lost the war.
00:53:20Japan lost the war.
00:53:23Japan lost the war.
00:53:26Japan lost the war.
00:53:29Japan lost the war.
00:53:32Japan lost the war.
00:53:35Japan lost the war.
00:53:38When the remaining teachers were defeated in the war,
00:53:41they gathered all the children and made them prostrate.
00:53:44Japan lost the war.
00:53:46Japan lost the war because you did not work hard enough.
00:53:52Some people cry because they lost the war.
00:54:06But I was relieved.
00:54:11I thought I did not have to be afraid.
00:54:17The emperor was a god called Arashidogami.
00:54:22I think he was a god.
00:54:32He did not have a house.
00:54:36He did not have a house.
00:54:39He did not have a house.
00:54:42He did not have a house.
00:54:52He did not have food.
00:54:57He went to the mountains to find a tree.
00:55:07He climbed the tree and shook his body.
00:55:10The fruit fell off.
00:55:13The most delicious fruit was the egg of a bee.
00:55:17He was looking for the nest of a bee.
00:55:20The egg of a bee fell off from the nest.
00:55:26He picked it up with his fingers and ate it.
00:55:31At that time, he lived a primitive life.
00:55:35After the war,
00:55:41When I was about a month old,
00:55:45the Chinese army came to Japan.
00:56:06To the scrap heap went the guns, the ships, the tanks.
00:56:13A growing new idea.
00:56:15The idea of democracy.
00:56:24You'll never know dear, how much I love you.
00:56:28You are my sunshine away.
00:56:32When I heard that this was American music,
00:56:35I thought it was amazing.
00:56:38When I went home after a month,
00:56:41there was already a Yamiichi.
00:56:44They were selling various American things.
00:56:48When I saw them,
00:56:50all the victims were in trouble.
00:56:53I thought America was amazing.
00:56:57The first thing I did was to submit an e-mail.
00:57:07For example,
00:57:09there were only five people in a class of about 20.
00:57:15We played rock-paper-scissors,
00:57:18and the five people who won would get it.
00:57:27Everyone asked me to draw an experiment machine.
00:57:32I thought it was a big thing to be able to shoot.
00:57:39For example, when I drew a picture of a bomb victim,
00:57:44I drew a picture with a fan on a hot June day.
00:57:49It was hot, but it was cold.
00:57:53I put the pen down and rested for a while,
00:57:57and then I drew again.
00:58:00It was hard to draw.
00:58:03When I went to school,
00:58:06I was happy to meet my friends.
00:58:11I met a teacher at that time.
00:58:14He held my shoulders and said,
00:58:18Did you survive?
00:58:21I was happy to hear that.
00:58:24Then he said,
00:58:26No one came back.
00:58:30That's when I heard that all my friends had died.
00:58:42After class was over,
00:58:45I went to the place where everyone was doing their work.
00:58:52It was as quiet as I had ever seen.
00:59:00It was like a subway.
00:59:06I called my best friend, Ito-kun,
00:59:10holding a torch.
00:59:15Ito-kun! Ito-kun!
00:59:19I called him three times.
00:59:26He didn't answer.
00:59:29Ito-kun died of a heart attack.
00:59:37I began to report the damage to my family every class.
00:59:47There were many people.
01:00:00Ito-kun was the only survivor.
01:00:04He said,
01:00:06I'm the only survivor.
01:00:10I have to remember that.
01:00:15On the way to school,
01:00:18the atomic bomb exploded.
01:00:21When the bomb exploded,
01:00:24everyone was dead.
01:00:28No one was alive.
01:00:36This is me after the atomic bomb.
01:00:41When I was still lying in bed,
01:00:45my aunt came to visit me.
01:00:48I wasn't injured or burned.
01:00:52After a week,
01:00:57a black bubble came out of my mouth,
01:01:02and I was gone.
01:01:17A month later,
01:01:19my father's stomach turned all blue.
01:01:25Three weeks later,
01:01:29I was gone.
01:01:31Ito-kun vomited a lump of blood out of his mouth.
01:01:38It was as if everything in his body had come out.
01:01:44There were many people.
01:01:47That was the town of Tenya Wanya.
01:01:55At that time, no one knew about radiation.
01:01:59Even the doctors didn't know.
01:02:03Everyone was afraid of the poison of the atomic bomb.
01:02:25On September 19, about a month later,
01:02:30I was told not to report on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
01:02:35in newspapers and magazines.
01:02:39No one reported on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
01:02:54Hiroshima and Nagasaki
01:02:59Hiroshima and Nagasaki
01:03:04Hiroshima and Nagasaki
01:03:09Hiroshima and Nagasaki
01:03:12I think the U.S. was very concerned
01:03:17about the general public's knowledge
01:03:21about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
01:03:26If the world knew about Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
01:03:30international voices would rise.
01:03:34All the letters from outside the prefecture would be censored.
01:03:39If they wrote about Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
01:03:42a group called Fuka would come back.
01:03:46The residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
01:03:49were trying to build a medical school.
01:03:52The trees were cut from the pillars of the collapsed school building.
01:03:57After a couple of times, the building was demolished.
01:04:01This was an order from the U.S.
01:04:05So all the schools were demolished.
01:04:09Hiroshima and Nagasaki
01:04:13The atomic bomb survivors were threatened
01:04:17that they would be taken to Okinawa
01:04:20for heavy labor if they talked about their experiences.
01:04:24So they stopped talking about their experiences.
01:04:32We felt helpless and miserable.
01:04:39We had to talk to each other.
01:04:47We didn't know much about the situation,
01:04:52but we were trapped.
01:05:00Can I talk about the ABCC?
01:05:04Of course.
01:05:07A few days after the war ended,
01:05:10the U.S. military built a magnificent building
01:05:14to investigate the effects of radiation on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
01:05:19The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission.
01:05:28We all thought it was a hospital.
01:05:31But the U.S. military called us.
01:05:38I remember getting on a jeep
01:05:42to go to school.
01:05:45We were told to get on a jeep
01:05:48to go to school.
01:05:50We had a blood test and other tests.
01:05:53Then we had some candy
01:05:56and went back to school.
01:06:02My father told me to come to school.
01:06:07He told me to eat delicious bread
01:06:10and drink delicious juice.
01:06:13He told me to eat delicious bread and drink delicious juice.
01:06:15But he didn't tell me anything.
01:06:19At first, I didn't care.
01:06:22But in the second year,
01:06:24he came to pick me up again.
01:06:27So I was a little upset in the third year.
01:06:30He didn't tell me anything.
01:06:33But he came to pick me up again.
01:06:38After that, my father found a lung cancer
01:06:41at the hospital.
01:06:47He had a stroke and died.
01:06:52Then he called the U.S. military.
01:06:55Then he called the U.S. military.
01:06:58My father's mother refused to talk to him.
01:07:01My father's mother refused to talk to him.
01:07:08She called him three times.
01:07:12My mother refused to talk to him.
01:07:15She told him not to hurt him anymore.
01:07:18My father told me the same thing.
01:07:25We are conducting research
01:07:28on tens of thousands of victims.
01:07:31We don't have any treatment.
01:07:34We are being made to look like a bunch of scrap.
01:07:37We don't want to be close to the victims.
01:07:40We only care about the effects of the atomic bomb.
01:07:43We only care about the effects of the atomic bomb.
01:07:46I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I thought it was a keroid or something.
01:08:11I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I thought it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but
01:08:41I didn't think it was an atomic bomb at the time, but I didn't think it was an atomic bomb
01:08:56I went to my distant relative's house to see her.
01:09:04I didn't know she was pregnant.
01:09:09I heard that her mother had a hemorrhage,
01:09:17so I went to the hospital.
01:09:20That's when I first heard about gyudon.
01:09:22At that time, I was happy to be called an old lady,
01:09:29but now that I'm an old man, it's different.
01:09:32It's because of the atomic bombing.
01:09:42I was told by an old man that the tip of my head was scary.
01:09:49Now I'm an old man, too.
01:09:54I thought about committing suicide.
01:10:03But I was given the tip of my head,
01:10:07so I thought that if I drank a lot of it, I would die in my sleep.
01:10:14I was told not to tell my neighbors about the atomic bombing.
01:10:22I felt that I was hated by everyone.
01:10:27That was the first time I felt that way.
01:10:29It was the first time I felt that way.
01:10:39After 7 years of occupation and independence,
01:10:44in the summer, when the streets were free,
01:10:49the atomic bombing spread like wildfire.
01:10:54It spread like wildfire.
01:11:12At first, I was told not to get close to me
01:11:16because I was mistaken for an infectious disease patient.
01:11:19At that time, the number of people who died of leukemia was increasing rapidly.
01:11:30Various newspapers reported how many people died of leukemia.
01:11:38I was told that if I got close to an infectious disease patient, I would be infected.
01:11:43When I was young, I was ashamed to be an infectious disease patient.
01:11:48I didn't like it.
01:11:51For that reason, people who were exposed to the atomic bombing
01:11:55began to hide that they were affected by the radiation.
01:12:01The time when I was exposed to the atomic bombing was when I got married.
01:12:05I was rejected by my in-laws.
01:12:14Not just once.
01:12:17I was told that I didn't want my family to be affected by the atomic bombing.
01:12:27I was told that I shouldn't get married.
01:12:31I was told that I shouldn't tell my loved ones about it.
01:12:36When you got married, did you tell your wife you were an infectious disease patient?
01:12:41I didn't tell her.
01:12:52After that, I left home and went to Tokyo.
01:12:58When I went to Tokyo, I didn't tell my family that I was an infectious disease patient.
01:13:10I didn't want them to hate me.
01:13:18When I went to Hakone, I saw mountains in the lake.
01:13:29When I peered into the lake, I saw Mt. Fuji.
01:13:34It was white and beautiful.
01:13:37I thought,
01:13:39I'm glad I came to Tokyo.
01:13:43Anyway, I talked to about 10 people.
01:13:48You were popular.
01:13:50Yes, I was.
01:13:53I guess we were destined to meet.
01:13:59When I first met him, I didn't have a habit of taking pictures.
01:14:07I was 20 years old and he was 21.
01:14:11At that time, it was popular to take pictures of cars even though I didn't have one.
01:14:18He was a trumpeter.
01:14:21I sang and he played the piano.
01:14:24I sang and he played the piano.
01:14:29At that time,
01:14:32she was a flying woman.
01:14:38I don't know how to say.
01:14:42I was surprised.
01:14:48I'm sad.
01:14:50After we got married, I found out that she was also an infectious disease patient.
01:14:59I was 7 months old and 1 year old when the atomic bomb was dropped.
01:15:06I was born as a very energetic child.
01:15:12Before I went to elementary school,
01:15:15my left eye, which I could see straight,
01:15:19started to look like a car.
01:15:22At first, I was diagnosed that it was a tumor.
01:15:27After a while, it turned out to be a blood clot.
01:15:33Whether or not I, as an atomic bomb survivor,
01:15:36was able to survive,
01:15:39I always thought it was the biggest burden for a woman.
01:15:46At that time,
01:15:48I heard on the radio and in the newspapers
01:15:51that a child born from an atomic bomb
01:15:54was born with a disability,
01:15:57and that even if a child was born,
01:16:00he or she would die of an illness.
01:16:02My husband and I talked to each other for several days.
01:16:13He said,
01:16:16since he had given up his life,
01:16:19no matter what kind of child was born,
01:16:22he would raise it.
01:16:24Normally,
01:16:26whether it was a boy or a girl,
01:16:28he would raise it.
01:16:30I asked him,
01:16:32do you have ten fingers on your hands and feet?
01:16:37Once a year,
01:16:39there is a medical examination in front of my school.
01:16:42There is a pediatric hospital.
01:16:44In the waiting room,
01:16:46there is a list of specimens lined up.
01:16:59There was no brain,
01:17:01only one eye,
01:17:03ten fingers,
01:17:05ten fingers on five fingers,
01:17:08and so on.
01:17:10I grew up watching it all the time.
01:17:18Somehow,
01:17:20I thought that
01:17:22I had to take responsibility
01:17:25for the damage caused by the atomic bomb.
01:17:28It was natural for me to think that way.
01:17:41We were worried about
01:17:44what would happen
01:17:47to the next generation of atomic bomb survivors.
01:17:50It was natural for me to think that way.
01:17:58I sometimes think that
01:18:01I may have chosen the wrong path
01:18:04and that I may have chosen to raise a child.
01:18:20I'm scared.
01:18:33My son got married and had a wife.
01:18:38Mr. Hiroshi said that
01:18:41his back was hurting
01:18:44and that something was coming out.
01:18:46There was a phone call saying,
01:18:49I'm going to the hospital now.
01:18:52I went to the hospital on the fourth day.
01:18:56I asked,
01:18:58Mr. Hiroshi, how are you doing?
01:19:03My wife was next to me.
01:19:06She glared at me and said,
01:19:09Mr. Hiroshi,
01:19:10I heard from my mother that you were sick.
01:19:22My mother asked,
01:19:25Mr. Hiroshi,
01:19:28did you make your father drink blood?
01:19:34My teacher said,
01:19:37your mother must have been exposed to the atomic bomb.
01:19:43At that time,
01:19:46various diseases such as air and radioactivity
01:19:51entered her body.
01:19:54For that reason,
01:19:57Mr. Hiroshi was diagnosed with leukemia.
01:20:03I felt sorry for my wife and myself.
01:20:08I took care of him,
01:20:11but he passed away.
01:20:34A film by
01:20:39Mr. Hiroshi
01:20:44A film by
01:20:49Mr. Hiroshi
01:20:54A film by
01:20:58Mr. Hiroshi
01:21:04A film by
01:21:09Mr. Hiroshi
01:21:18When I was exposed to the atomic bomb,
01:21:2278 years ago,
01:21:24there were only short bursts of nuclear weapons.
01:21:28Today, there are about 12,700.
01:21:35The anti-atomic bomb movement began.
01:21:42The atomic bomb survivors stood up and built a bomb shelter.
01:21:54A film by
01:22:00Mr. Hiroshi
01:22:05I can say that the atomic bomb survivors
01:22:09were abandoned for a long time.
01:22:13At first,
01:22:16they protected themselves
01:22:19through their own experiences.
01:22:21They promised to protect humanity
01:22:24through their own experiences.
01:22:27That was their determination.
01:22:30When such people gather,
01:22:33the country will listen to us.
01:22:37I'm looking forward to seeing
01:22:40how far the country will listen to our wishes.
01:22:45Are you ready?
01:22:52Today, there were three of us.
01:22:56Tomorrow, there will be five of us.
01:22:59Then, the number grew.
01:23:06In the end, there will be 50,000.
01:23:11Atomic bomb survivors
01:23:14often do things on their own.
01:23:21The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:23:24The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:23:28The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:23:32The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:23:36We fought day and night
01:23:39to stop the atomic bomb survivors from being created.
01:23:48The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:23:51Not only in Japan,
01:23:54but also all over the world,
01:23:57we spread the reality of non-human
01:24:00nuclear weapon destruction
01:24:03and continued to protest against it.
01:24:07In 1975, we were told
01:24:10that we couldn't even plant weeds.
01:24:13In the spring of the following year,
01:24:15the sparrows came back and started crying.
01:24:21We got sick,
01:24:24and we almost died many times.
01:24:30I felt like I had been revived
01:24:34by the power of something big.
01:24:38The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:24:43When I became an atomic bomb survivor,
01:24:47could I say that it was inevitable?
01:24:52Originally, people think
01:24:56that they are wonderful people.
01:25:04There is a possibility that a tragic event will happen.
01:25:08That's why I don't want to leave any evidence
01:25:13that it was a tragic event.
01:25:18The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:25:22The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:25:26The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:25:29Knowing that I was an atomic bomb survivor
01:25:31may have been the key to my self-realization.
01:25:43I realized that I was not an ordinary person.
01:25:48The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:25:52The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:25:56The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:25:59I felt like I was a special person.
01:26:06I now give the floor to Mr. Sueiki Ido.
01:26:10The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:26:14The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:26:17The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:26:20The atomic bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
01:26:25brought life, body, life, and mental damage.
01:26:31I am very afraid that a nuclear war is about to break out.
01:26:38The situation is getting worse.
01:26:42What I heard from Ukraine and Gaza
01:26:47is the return of that day for the atomic bomb survivors.
01:26:52If a nuclear war breaks out,
01:26:55nothing will be left but a black city,
01:26:58a mountain of corpses, and a world of blood.
01:27:03The atomic bomb is a weapon of madness.
01:27:11It is an absolute evil that cannot be recognized as a human being.
01:27:17Thank you very much.
01:27:33The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:27:39I will never forget that the atomic bomb was dropped at 11 o'clock.
01:27:46I have a deep impression of it.
01:27:53Every month,
01:27:57I ring the bell in Nagasaki at 11 o'clock.
01:28:04I pray for peace.
01:28:07I pray for a peaceful world without nuclear war.
01:28:12I will do my best to build a peaceful world.
01:28:33The Atomic Bomb Survivors
01:29:03The Atomic Bomb Survivors