NAGASAKI STORIES
Original language title: [same]

Country of production: Netherlands
Year: 1996
Language: Japanese, etc
55 mins.

"The almost whispering atmosphere of the film reminds us of Ozu." (NRC HANDELSBLAD)

Festivals included: Rotterdam, Bombay, Tehran

Fifty years after the atomic bombs obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, NAGASAKI STORIES reveals private recollections of some of those who survived the bomb. Mr. Kyushiro Kusakabe, a former reporter who lost his mother and wife, travels from Tokyo to Nagasaki with his sister-in-law. By the time we reach the city, we have learned about pre-war Nagasaki, and come to know the man's history, as well as the histories of several others. These stories are dramatically contrasted with the town we see.

Producer: Jos de Putter
Director: Jos de Putter
Editor: Puck Goossen
Photography: Paul Cohen
Sound: Mark van der Willigen
Source:
Mr. Frank van den Engel
Zeppers Film & TV
Joh. Verhulststraat 174
1075 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands
zeppers@xs4all.nl

Sunday, March 23
5pm
Block Cinema
Screening with SOLO: THE LAW OF THE FAVELA

Screening as part of EMPIRE AND RESISTANCE: JOS DE PUTTER RETROSPECTIVE