The first woman got it right, the 2nd guy didn’t, the movie isn’t proud of the bomb and the ending literally spells it out how dangerous this newfound weapon really is, its creator regrets ever making it
I think he's referring to the Trinity Test itself, where the atomic explosion is shown in a terrifying yet beautiful way, which was cause for celebration among all of Los Alamos. The rest of the film does pretty clearly spell out the dangers of such a power though, especially the final scene.
@@The12thDimension. but that's accurate, it was a monumental scientific achievement. It's the application which was and is terrifying. I don't think the movie could be much more clear about it.
@axt2 oh absolutely, not denying that at all. I can just imagine some Japanese audiences taking the initial explosion scene the wrong way as it's portrayed in a positive way, as the culmination of all Los Alamos' work paying off. That's obviously not the films fault, I think that scene is absolute perfection, with the detonation being that of a beautiful horror released into the world. I'm just not surprised it received polarising reactions.
Just as Americans are not responsible for what wars their government decides to participate in, or not. The civilians of Japan are not responsible for the wars its government chose to participate in. If you are going by this video Keep in mind that the citizens of Hiroshima are only speaking of their experience. Their families were victims of war just as any civilians are victims of war.
@jujubees711 I am not necessarily blaming the civilians of Japan for the crimes committed by their soldiers and government (although the capacity to commit such heinous crimes in a systemic manner may, in some ways, reflect the shortcomings of a broader society). The blind spot that I refer to is a lack of education / awareness / critical self-reflection among Japanese people about those atrocities committed during WWII. I believe many civilians in Japan are either not sufficiently aware of their dark past or choose to brush it aside in their assessment of WWII, instead portraying themselves as mere victims of the bomb. Perhaps civilians in Japan cannot control the contents of their school curriculum but in this day and age with Internet access, I hope some of them choose to learn about their history more deeply.
@@DOXO881 So what does any of this have to do with the video? As an American I can name many atrocities that the Allies committed (arguably worse than what we allege the Axis), and none of it was taught in our education system. To name a few... Unspeakable things happened in Tokyo & Berlin during occupation...involving girls as young as 6. Gegenmiao, Holodomor, Starvation of POW's AFTER the war, countless bombings of German/Japanese civilian ships, Bengal famine, Internment camps of Japanese-Americans, Church massacres, and dismembering corpses of Axis troops. The whole moral high horse angle of "Japan evil we good" is not only unjustified but distasteful. Epitome of UA-cam/Tiktok brain. The eye for eye thing doesn't work here because the atomic bombs have been thoroughly debunked as a necessity. Just listen to what any relevant staff officer on the US side had to say about them. Nimitz, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Leahy, etc. "Unjustified and barbaric with no military strategic value". Also the bombs killed virtually no Japanese soldiers and only women, children, and elders for the most part.
My grandfather saw the bomb in Hiroshima. My great-grandfather was hit in Nagasaki. I don't think the film wasn't trying to say it was right/wrong, but that circumstances brought us to create such a destructive power and Oppie felt responsible for possibly dooming humanity. The interviewees must have misunderstood the intent. Personally, I enjoyed the movie and it's great that we live in an age where we can have movies and discuss these topics openly!
I'm glad we can talk half across the globe and touch a difficult subject. My grandfather is a soldier in the Philippines. Participated in the Cabanatuan Prison raid that liberated many POW. By August 1945 the fighting was on the northern part of Luzon island. Gen. Yamashita was making his last stand and fighting a stiff resistance. He surrendered in Sept 2 1945 after signing of japan's surrender. If the war continues longer I don't if my grandfather would survive the war. I may not here today. The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't deserve to die but it was the price to stop the war. Millions more would have died in Asia Pacific, and more historical sites destroyed if the war extended for more than a year.
As an American living in Japan for over 12 years It is my opinion that there is little ownership taken on the Japanese side for the events of the war. I have been to the Memorial in Hiroshima and as incredibly moving as it is I felt that it was very light in assigning any of the blame for the war on Japan. Japanese schools tend to gloss over the events of WW2 and generally don’t touch on the war crimes committed in Japanese occupied territories. This leads to a younger generation that is ignorant to Japans role in the war.
yeah, that's why they traveled all the way to Hiroshima and interviewed people there. not Portland ,Oregon . they might Just might have different perspective.
@@dfsdh432v9 The Japs didn't drop a nuke in anger on Portland (but I suppose they would have if they had invented the atomic bomb first to win the war).
@@jaredf6205There is a big difference between landing on a different celestial body and dropping a bomb that murders hundreds of thousands and traumatizes an entire ethnic group for decades.
I'm Japanese, and I watched this movie today. I was moved by Oppenheimer's suffering and being at the mercy of his country. And also about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I regret that many Japanese people left the theater having misunderstood the purpose of the movie. I think this UA-cam video is biased. At least I haven't seen anyone around me say that this movie shouldn't be shown in Japan. In any case, please don't think that this video is representative of all Japanese people. I hope so.
I think that Japanese people have a right to react the way they did if they think the movie praised the bomb too much. Even during the movie, Oppenheimer is depicted as a kid with a new toy that is eager to test it. He PUSHED for the bomb to be used. It's only fair for the aftereffects to be shown as well. He was no "victim".
@@Halcon_Sierreno IDK how much the bombs effected Japan's decision to agree to unconditional surrender, I lean towards the idea that the USSR declaring war on Japan played a larger role. Given how brutal the Battle of Okinawa was I don't blame Truman for using the bombs to get the Japanese to surrender while avoiding an invasion of the main islands.
I am Japanese. I am not good at English so I use translation. Sadly, in Japanese schools, they hardly teach about the Nanjing Massacre, Unit 731, and the terrible crimes committed by the Japanese military against the people of the Philippines and Indonesia during World War II. Personally, I am ashamed of this fact as a Japanese person and at the same time I am truly sorry for the victims. I think that people who are dissatisfied with this movie should think more about why the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. If we properly learned about the mistakes our ancestors made overseas, we would realize how foolish it is to act as mere victims.
We live in the present and to the future, as long as we know each others past, is fine. A mistake I think, is to take the blame of other people actions. You are a human being not a country or a goverment. All of the big countries of today have such a horrible past of war and slavery.
I’m Chinese, I love Japanese cultures including Animes and games. However, the fact that Japanese government trying to hide, get away from what they committed in WWII to China including murder of over 2 millions of armless citizens is unforgivable. Not a single official apology was made so far from Japanese government and the school in Japan don’t even teach those. If history is not learnt, those radical pro-war people would just repeat this again
@@InterviewsWithTheAncientsI’m very wrong, they killed over 18 millions of citizens in just China alone, not to mention Korea, and the rest of East Asian. This is just not acceptable
@@JavoCover That person is not representative of the Japanese society! Most people deny their past or are ignorant about it. They're not willing to learn or understand why thinks happened the way they did.
The Japanese are in no place to criticise the movie when they have yet to tell the history of what Japan did to the rest of Asia accurately. My Japanese friends who visit Singapore visit our museums and are shocked to find out how horrible the Japanese army treated us in the past. These are grown adults who were taught inaccurate histories from young. I love Japan and much of its modern culture but I’m confused and disappointed that they continue to sweep all their horrible deeds under the carpet!!
If you are a native English speaker, you are no one to complain about historical events, you come from countries that colonized and enslaved too many people.
@@deadname99_43Right because Africans didn’t enslave each other. Slavery is undoubtedly an abhorrent practice, and yet it was prevalent in virtually every corner of the globe at some point or another. It ultimately helps nobody to use such a broad stroke term such as ‘English-Speakers’.
@@drdoctor9733 sure about that? If you are European, the UK supports Israel and says nothing about the genocide that is happening in Africa, If you are from the United States, your government supports Israel, and has also caused instability in MANY other countries in order to benefit from and plunder their natural resources, even in my country we have a phrase, "poor us, so far from God, but so close to the United States." You have a bias if you come from a colonized first world country and want to think that your heritage is not stained with blood.
@@Gentrification. From your perspective as a native English speaker, it doesn't make sense to use that term, but the world is bigger than that, being a native English speaker means that you are already born with a privilege without realizing it.
I think they must've translated it bad, how was the bomb praised?? You can clearly see the discomfort after they realized what they created and even Oppenheimer's reaction in the film.
i think because the movie was more about Oppenheimer (which makes sense) and not the bomb. Of course the bomb aspect as a Japanese person will always outweigh anything presented in the film.
@ThePursuitWODThey didn’t show any faces of the victims but they were very good in showing imagery of what victims of the bombs must’ve gone through. The whole scene where Oppie gives a speech about the bomb and immediately has visions of the people in front of him being flashed with light brighter than the sun, evaporated, those who weren’t being turned to charred bodies due to the heat, skin peeling off due to radiation and people vomiting. Just because the movie doesn’t dedicate a whole 10-15 minutes on its already long run time to show Japanese people dying (which would be REALLY weird since we’re looking this through Oppie’s perspective and he was never there to witness the bombs) seems more like a nitpicky criticism than really one done in good faith since the movies do well enough in showcasing the effects of the bomb. They just don’t do it for too long.
@ThePursuitWOD they didnt show that because it was about oppenheimers personal experiences (hence the sx scenes) and oppenheimer never saw an effected person so why would they show it?
@ThePursuitWOD and whats your obsession with making it more graphic it was already pretty graphic and a wide variety of audiences are watching that movie, some people arent comfortable with seeing that, i almost threw up after watching that scene it was gross
I’m living in another country and watched this movie as a Japanese. I didn’t feel this movie praised the nuclear bomb, and I thought Japanese should watch this movie: to understand how he made nuclear bomb, to know how others reacted this, we don’t know so much but how he felt about his invention of bomb. Japanese, especially young generations, don’t know well about their own country’s history, what ancestors did to Koreans, how suffered WW2 not only inside of Japan also outside like in the US. When I visited Japanese American museum in LA, and participated in an event in Vancouver to watch the documentary movie about Korean and Japanese during the WW2, I realized how much I didn’t know about the own ancestors’ history and I knew only history how Americans were horrible, and how suffered Japanese during WW2, especially in Okinawa, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I can get the man from Hiroshima feels he can’t recommend Japanese to watch the movie, but to learn something in a different view, I think especially Japanese should watch this movie.
Yeah, Japan colonized Korea, doubled the Korean population, developed the economy, built schools and hospitals all over the country, etc. As a result, the literacy rate of the Korean people increased dramatically and the average life expectancy increased. And there was even a university in Seoul, whereas even Germany did not build a university in Poland. And the status system and slavery that were common during the Korean Empire were abolished. The Japanese people should know this.
@@asdfghjjhgfIf the atrocities committed outweigh the good things, it is understandable that people and historians will tend to remember and give more emphasis to the dark events
You guys forget it's not just Korea they colonized, literally nearly all of Asia was and they did so tyrannically so we are really understating how hypocritical Japan is for pointing out wrongs when they themselves are the agents of said wrongs.
The only countries that the Japanese had a long colonial involvement with were Korea, Taiwan, and Palau. Manchukuo was only occupied for 10 years, and the other Southeast Asian countries were only occupied for 2-3 years during the Pacific War. And the Japanese invested huge amounts of capital in Korea and Taiwan, which they tried to assimilate into Japan, and colonial modernization occurred. Today's North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan are the children of Japan.
The movie aimed to be hyperfocused on Oppenheimer himself and his perspective from its inception. It's under no obligation to depict the bombings, and it wouldn't have made any sense whatsoever. Also, Oppenheimer's story has never been in the spotlight until last year. Meanwhile, the bombings have been depicted in dozens of movies across many decades, they can watch those if they want
Yeah most Americans would have briefly heard about the atomic bombs from the radio or newspaper. The true reality of what happened is hard to wrap your mind around but it was pretty out of sight and out of mind for them.
We can say all we want but we would never even pretend to understand. Most that died from the bomb wasn't from the immediate evaporation but was a slow death that took over two weeks. Now add to that seeing your family going through the same. Even if you have been at Guantanamo you would still not come close to understanding. Japan is now one of our most critical ally and as a friend let them do as they must. I don't know when's the last time the Japanese told us how we should feel about their movie or what not.
Bro relax. They are just giving their thoughts because they are the future generation of the people who got hit. You want them to feel happy and excited they saw a movie on the weapon that killed their ancestors? That's not realistic.
@@Rexxsar101well as a generation of people whose grandparents were harmed by the Japanese during the WWII, I would like to share my discontent that their govt continues to obscure the truth of WWII to them. How can we learn to avoid the mistakes from the past if we choose to alter history?
@@Rexxsar101 Its incredibly disingenuous to say the movie praised the bomb like the kid in the glasses said though. Nolan made a concerted effort at the end to show Oppenheimer was sick over it all and understood the devastation of it. And that the US government was callous about the devastation. Not a fair wrap at all.
@@Rexxsar101 Im just giving my reaction to their reaction. I see alot of similar criticism not just in this interview that they didnt focus enough on the victims of the bombing in Japan, im simply responding to that specific critique.
@@drakko1635 thats what "Either" in his sentence means. Hes saying "Like ours, Their ancestors werent saints." Regardless, both of you made awful points that miss the purpose of the movie and the perception of it in context of the video.
@@HentsSauce And the ones who read about it all declare that it's bs propaganda. In Japan, you either don't know it or you call it bs and ridicule other nations and call the atrocities a lie.
As a Korean I get dumbfounded whenever Japanese elders openly express their hatred towards Korea. Like tf you don't have the right to feel anything other than guilt
@@ShohTann nah man, this video was about how the Japanese are still dangerously oblivious about their war crimes. What I'm saying is even the elders who are old enough to have experienced it second hand express open hatred towards Koreans as if somehow we were the perpetrators, and this is largely due to the Japenese government's determination to deny their history by going as far as manipulating/omitting facts from their school history books and discouraging history as a subject. The viseo didn't mention Korea but the attitude displayed by the people make the subject very relevant.
Japan is a country that looks like a democracy from the surface but in reality it has been dominated by a single political party for over 50 years. That ain’t a democracy to me, that’s a bunch of modern day shoguns willingly keeping their subjects oblivious to their own history like they’re a bunch of sheep.
@@HappB5 as someone who came from a country that japan had invaded, i agree that they should acknowledge their past, i admire their cultures and all but history is still history But i've never seen any japanese elderly express hate towards korean Side note : i still don't think the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki are justified
They should really be more like Germany and own up to what happened in the past especially what they did to China, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Myanmar, New Guinea, Guam, East Timor, and Nauru.
@@iraqi7978 no atleast the people of america admit to their crimes. Japan has yet to apologize and continues to act as if they were victims when the bomb was one of the only ways to stop them.
@@iraqi7978 They've owned up to their past, Japan hasn't. It's not the Japanese fault what their ancestors did, nor is it the Americans. But it is important to acknowledge atrocities of the past so they do not happen again.
Can't blame them. They were only at the theaters for themselves and cared less about Oppenheimer himself. Hard to blame them. It's difficult to empathise with terrorists. Japan was bad, but didn't deserve Hiroshima either.
@@oosmanbeekawoo I think it’s kind of a stretch to call Americans the terrorists in this situation when Japan first attacked Pearl Harbor unprovoked. Not to mention, all the atrocities they were committing in China and all over Asia. Imperialist Japan was unhinged.
@@drdoctor9733 This feels like you completely lost the plot of the original Godzilla movies. Those movies were tightly connected to the atomic bomb aspect. I think it could be said that the devastation they experience from the nuke drop was so much that Godzilla is something like a poetic manifestation of that destruction. So Japanese people aren’t fond of seeing their cities being destroyed anymore than Americans do when they watch Independence Day.
You act like that's the dumbest idea you've ever heard lol the nuke that ended up being used in Japan... as an idea it makes sense cuz the movie did kinda gloss over that real easy.
@@eufrosniad994Everything you just said, with all due respect, concerns the original _Gojira_ film. Most Godzilla film through later decades are action movies that don't have as strong a message, and are mostly Godzilla beating up other monsters (often in cities). So yes, Japanese can enjoy seeing their cities get destroyed, just like Americans feel when they see heroes and villains smash each other through buildings in New York (or watch _monster movies_ set in New York for that matter).
Seems a lot of people worldwide failed to realise the film is not really supposed to be about the bomb. It's a biopic about Oppenheimer and his rise and fall from grace as he developed a god complex over his work.
oh look another uneducated person who seems to think that a film about the atomic bomb isnt about the atomic bomb. seems like you need to watch the movie
@@watchingvideos786illiteracy and inability to understand visual stimuli is such a problem these days.. Present a film about the atomic bomb and you seem to think it's not about the atomic bomb.
"the film also depicts the atomic bomb in a way that seems to praise it" "failed to tell the stories of the victims of Hiroshima" I don't think they really understood what the movie is about...just goes to show up until now Japanese youths are being conditioned to think they were the victims...
I think the “praise” that guy described I think is something a lot of people would miss, not just (but mostly) the Japanese, but it’s tragic irony that’s depicted in the film; that even something horrible and devastating, if people dedicate years to make a thing, they’re going to rejoice in their accomplishment. When the characters were cheering after the success of the test, it’s not an “‘Murica hoorah!” moment, but an ironic moment of weakness in humanity. It’s disappointing that the overall opinion in Japan of Oppenheimer misses that irony.
its true , a same example is british empire . Today British people do not know anything about the horrors british commited on its colonies especially INDIA and AFRICA . A huge amount of slavery wealth were taken but they are still proud of british empire .
@@Iamdead666this is true. I'm from Scotland, and I only remember learning about 3 things in history class. William wallace, JFK assassination, and Hitler. (I didn't take history, so I don't know what else they teach)
they are because the government delayed them for such a long time without public reason as to why. People mistook the intent and possible negative intent of the movie.
Lieutenant General Hong Sa-Ik was in charge of the prisoners in Philippines. He was found guilty and was executed. If you look at the bigger picture, all the Asian countries are still third world countries. It's all due to hundred years of colonization from other countries. You could've held more cultural value but the damage has already been done.
So? I absolutely see no correlation between your comment and the video or are you suggesting that thousands of Japanese deserved to die because they were inhumane?
@@mosesebenazer WW2 was rough on the civilians of all the belligerent nations except the US, it's good to be surrounded by friends and fishes, but I don't blame Truman for dropping the bombs to try and force Japan to surrender and avoiding an invasion of the home islands. An invasion of Japan would've been so much worse for everyone but most of all the Japanese.
I don't know why Japan are so trying hard to potray themselves as also the victims of WW2 when they are actually wreaking havoc on half of Asia, Germany are not potray themself as a victim of the regime so they must accepting whatever Nzi regime did back then.. If the Japanese still being able to reject this film or pretty much asking for their point of views that means the sense of defeat was not there
@ThePursuitWODit did though, Oppenheimer very clearly states he regrets making the bomb and the end credit scheme shows the dangers of the bomb destroying the world
@ThePursuitWODthe end of the movie literally shows you how Nuclear Weapons can cause the end of the world… did you miss the scene where the entire earth went up in flames? If that’s not anti nukes or denouncing nuclear weapons, I don’t know what to tell you 🤦♂️
I think it's not really the individual Japanese's fault more so the government's corruption and archaic idea of honour. Their 'honour' being that they need to prevent the Japanese from knowing about the crimes their country committed in World War 2.
The movie's title is Oppenheimer. Not Hiroshima or Nagasaki. There's a short film for that. The movie's subject is on the man who lead the creation of the bomb.
if you are not interested in what they think, do something else. title of video is Residents of Hiroshima, Japan react to 'Oppenheimer' NOT whatever you want to hear.
@@tocreatee5736 and im reacting to the reaction of the japanese who watched the movie. If anything, this movie reinforce the idea of nuclear controls and prohibition of nuclear weapon proliferation
Dude they are japanese. Of course they are going to feel weird about it. It's like if they made a movie called Hitler about Hitler and interview jews on what they think about the movie.
1) I disagree with the last dude. The movie “Oppenheimer”, is literally about a guy named Oppenheimer, not Hiroshima or Nagasaki 2) I don’t think they have the right to criticize the film considering Japan still brushes off and downplays their atrocities across Asia
1) - saying a film about Oppenheimer isn't gonna also be about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is like saying a film about Freddie Mercury isn't gonna be about music. 2) Of course he has a 'right' to criticise it. Is he ignorant about certain facts about the war? Probably. But so are you dude. Unless you're an academic who's studied the motives of historical actors within Japan, you're probably just another American who sees 'Japanese in WW2' as an evil monolith. That's the only way I can imagine anyone could justify obliterating an entire developed city of civilian families with a nuclear bomb.
@@_nigelgaming That makes very little material difference to my previous comment. You still leave me confused as to why you think a regular-seeming modern Japanese man has 'no right' to criticise the destruction of an entire developed city full of ordinary civilians. Like I actually just have no idea what you mean by 'he has no right'. Are you someone who objectively studies the motives of various actors during the war, from the American and Japanese sides, using both primary and secondary sourcss? Or are you just okay with dropping nukes on 300,000 civilians because... Japanese soliders invaded your country?
He has a right to criticize it, as does anyone who watches a film. He might be a bit ignorant about the war and japans role, but he and most people his age have been lied to by the government and education systems to the point that they wont believe it if you told them what japan did.
@@GorillaWithACellphone It's mostly lies by omission of important facts and the subtle transmission of anti-guilt rhetoric about the little they do know. Most people are apathetic about politics, and as soon as they're confronted with the facts as accepted by the rest of the world, they feel threatened
Do they teach about Pearl Harbor in Japan and how it was Japan that started a conflict with the US that got them involved in the war in the first place?
the Japanese government decided not to teach the next generation about the atrocities they committed during the war unfortunately the people of Japan probably wondering why there’s so much tension in the region so you can see why people might be aggravated about the education system at least Germany has a memorial for the holocaust victims
The conflict with the U.S. began long before that. The main culprits were the U.S. forcing Japan to open its borders and imposing unequal treaties. This forced Japan to become militarism and imperialism.
It's baffling to me when people think the movie praises oppenheimer or bomb? Like it literally ends with someone saying he is responsible for the potential destruction of the world and he stares in horror down the camera lense? Like the movie is very critical of both him and the bomb.
"Residents of Japan are confused about why a movie called Oppenheimer, based on a biography about Oppenheimer, tells the story from Oppenheimer's perspective"
Cant get a perspective of the japanese. The whole story is about the reason of developing the bomb and finding out how dangerous this bomb is and how it could change mankind. Also shows the perspective of the people developing it and the consequence that came with it. If you want to watch the perspective about it, grave of the fireflies is a good but sad one to watch.
The first Japanese film to address the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima was released in 1952, the year the American occupation ended. The film “Children of Hiroshima” was commissioned by Japan’s teachers Union. Although the print quality is poor, the film is available for free on UA-cam..Recommended.
Maybe they should show the mass atrocities committed by the Japanese that forced the use of the bomb? The acts they committed on pow’s, the Chinese, and the Koreans is as bad or worse than anything done by Germany.
@@BlownMacTruck In Japan, politicians admitting to war crimes is the same as saying good bye to their career. Also, they are systematic in educating their people in providing surface level history of ww2 that barely or doesnt even discuss their war crimes. "They deserve it" is a valid sentiment of the victims until the Japanese recognizes its war crimes.
City of Life and Death is such a sad trip… I think in general the Japanese populace are so far removed due to their lack of recognition that they’d say it went overboard.
Men Behind the Sun did get a release in Japan back in the late 80s, but the director received many death threats from Japanese far-right wingers, so he pulled the movie from theaters
We went to Hiroshima and visited the museum. We had a survivor tour guide (very sweet man) showing us around the memorials and asked if all of us (most are Americans and two are Canadians) had watched Oppenheimer before, which we all said yes. We didn’t know Japan didn’t release the movie yet, but our tour guide said he is excited to see it once it had been released.
@@motorola9956 You mean the Americans wouldn’t do it to Germany? Because they were literally developing it FOR dropping it in Germany. But they were beaten by the time it was finished.
Well the movie itself is not about the massacre or ww2, but Oppenheimer story including how he felt guilt after he finished his work. This gives Japanese a new perspective
I think Oppenheimer being excluded once completing the bomb was part of the point. The bombings arent shown but they show him imagine what will happen, because he didnt see it or control it.
Exactly. Not showing the bombings were essential in making us feel how he felt, which was just an announcement at the radio. He did not see the deaths. He could just imagine them as he did at his speech.
Good to see that the response is somewhat nuanced although people, not just Japanese, seem to not understand the historical context. The fact is, that Oppenheimer and the Manhattan project saved the lives of 300-500k combatants and millions of civilians. As for the notion that surrender was imminent, have a look at the "Kyūjō incident" here on YT.
I am glad Japanese went to see it. Its supposed to be uncomfortable. Its supposed to make people NOT want to repeat the mistakes of the past again. Russians should see it too...Japan is a peaceful country these days, but they should also not forget their own atrocities, not only against the US but against China...history is important. The truth is that without the bomb, Japan would never have surrendered.
@@acoustic_.yet they all try to forget about it by bringing up another countries atrocity. By engaging in what aboutism, it shows how they hate taking accountability and it’s baffling.
I thought the movie was very well done, but I think people had the wrong idea about what the movie would depict. Other than some short sequences in the film, it does not show the destruction and the terrible loss and aftermath of the atomic bomb. It is understandably from an American perspective because the film is an autobiography of Oppenheimer, not a film about the atomic bomb itself. The movie does not praise the use of the atomic bomb, but it does seem to praise its creation as a scientific breakthrough. The whole last third of the movie is about him struggling with the fact that he created something that could destroy the world and working to make sure they were never used again, angering his associates and him ultimately losing his security clearance because he was deemed a possible communist
@ThePursuitWOD I understand where they are from, and I know all about Hiroshima. I have been there and learned a lot about the effects of the Atomic bomb and how terrible of an atrocity it was. When I was there my brothers and I were approached by an old man in his late 70s who's mother and father survived the blast, his grandparents, sadly died in the bombing. The man told us everything he knew about the bombing, his family, and showed us old photo albums. He even brought us to many memorials near the atomic bomb dome. You gain a lot of perspective when you actually visit the place and talk to people about their experiences. You can see why Hiroshima's atomic dome is often used as backdrop to protest war. I feel like 99.99% of people can agree that we never want nuclear weapons to ever be used again. The whole final third of the movie, Oppenheimer becomes a staunch opponent to the use of any nuclear weapons. I think the movie was very clear about denouncing their use without just having someone come on screen and say, "nukes are bad"
They should watch City Of Life And Death to understand how suffer the Chinese during the Japanese colonialism (ww2) and it's also happened in other southeast of Asian countries, they treat us so bad and now the Japanese people just act like they are victim while watching Oppenheimer instead of remembering their war crimes in the past
We can tell who is telling the truth and who is lying just by reading your comments. Almost everything is just written in vague information. Especially desperate comments with caps.
@Fightforlife1 They were of Japanese prisoners released from China. That I believe was a CCP funded video. I just remembered it was a colorized video so it was made few decades after the war.
@@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623 so what's the truth? as bad as it might sound, but data collected by unit 731 contributed to the researches and development of modern medicine only because they were testing people like rats. their existence is undeniable.
@@Z_RE0 The information presented in a lot of videos never elaborate whether the victims died from battle or from systematic massacre. It never explains the kind of tools and machines they used, what companies were involved, or how much funding was involved in this project. It's always the same information with no real breakthrough in discovery. Every video like this is narrated in fairy tale story that relies on your emotional impulses rather than providing real facts.
@fleurdanon well yeah but that does not change the fact that they still never properly acknowledged their tyrannical history. Not really “what-about-ism” since I am putting what they said back on them, more pointing out their hypocrisy is all.
@fleurdanon What are you talking about? The US doesn't deny the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened like how Japan denies their murder of innocents. There is already plenty of media dedicated to the bombings.
@fleurdanon Okay but why does the movie need to actually show the bombings in it's own scene? It makes no sense, the whole movie takes place from the perspectives of Oppenheimer and Strauss and even from the perspective of Strauss it heavily focuses on Oppenheimer. Randomly throwing in a scene of the bombings and going outside the perspectives of the characters would be a bit obnoxious. I think the way Nolan portrayed it in the movie was appropriate because it didn't stray from the focus of the film. The audience learned of the bombings the same way someone who was far away from the war would have, through radio and photo slides.
@fleurdanonif Japan is selectively omitting their violent brutality, then it is wrong. If Japan has not apologise ar acknowledge what they have done in their past, then they are wrong. End of story. You have brainfk yourself into thinking otherwise
@@Ely-zf4ytthey don't deny it but going by the comments on this clearly there are plenty of people still think it was a good idea to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent people living under an authoritarian government, ignoring the other options available at the time.
also, kishida in recent us senates speech told that russian nuclear is dangerous(duh,of course) but forgot he talk it in front of the one dropped it on his country😂
I like how they forget that America wasn’t involved in the war until the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They should be blaming their government from back then more than anything. And yes, I get that JP youth aren’t taught well about WWII, but the internet literally exists and we live in a time where different cultures interact irl constantly. You can’t use ignorance as an excuse at this point.
@@jessicaregina1956 No, that's not a hot topic today. It's now about China being aggressive in the West Philippine Sea, and the possibility of war on Thailand through us.
the movie is educational and gives you a glimpse of what happened. It doesn't necessarily put the US in a bad light but rather gives you a deeper insight of why and how things unfolded related to the Atomic Bomb on the other side of the world.
All those American boys who died on Iwo Jima and other Pacific islands; the way they treated British and Australian/NZ POWs; the terrible crimes in Nanking before the war ... the Japanese don't have the right to complain. 😡
The Japanese attacked China before it even began world war two. Get your facts right. @@SecretSev7en July 7th 1937- September 1945. They murdered innocent civilians longer then the Holocaust happened.
Oh and Americans do ? Despite America having a nasty history of owning black slaves and discriminating them after for generations? Every country has a horrible history pal.
"Failed to tell the stories of the victims" it's called Oppenheimer, it's a movie about Oppenheimer, not the atomic bomb. It's based on a book. It is portrayed that Oppenheimer learned of the Japanese bombings the same way everyone else did, via news radio. Like what, did the audience not know this coming into into the theatre.
We must not turn a blind eye on our history so we have a better chance of not repeating it. This is true not just for Japan but for all of us humanity.
People in China, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Myanmar, New Guinea, Guam, East Timor, and Nauru have not forgotten the tens of millions of people killed by the Japanese before and during the Second World War. Every family in these countries has a story about their experience with the Japanese. The 400,000 comfort women in these countries are not forgotten. Each of the two bombs had a different design, and they wanted to know the effectiveness of each design. The Russians were close to achieving victory over the Japanese on the mainland, prompting the US to drop the bombs before that occurred. It would have been unfavorable for the US if Japan surrendered to Russia. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were deliberately spared during the firestorm bombing of Japanese cities to observe the effects of air-burst nuclear explosions on civilian populations. Their indifference, denial, lack of curiosity, and viewing themselves as the victims of wars ensure that history will repeat itself when given the opportunity.
unfortunately, the Japanese claim it never happened, and just my opinion, they got away with it, but I have to admit They did a great job of brainwashing the next generation to the point, they don’t believe any of the victims claims or maybe it’s just called arrogance and self-centered
The film is about the people who created the bomb and the trials and tribulations to achieve it. We know what they used it for but the movie isn't about that at all. There's no reason for a japanese perspective.
Not true , every year at Pearl Harbor Japanese delegate come from Japan to lay a wreath at Pearl Harbor , & tell the American people how sorry they are for the devastation they inflicted on Pearl Harbor & the United States does the same at Hiroshima and Nagasaki every year on their respected anniversaries , look it up , it’s out there .
@@robertlee8400Sure there are some ceremonies. But on the whole Japan has not reckoned with its past anywhere near to the extent that Germany has. Their education system basically skims over Japan’s role in WWII. It usually gives the barest of facts like names and dates, but emphasizes things farther in the past like the samurai era. Nationalistic, revisionist forces in the country have pressured politicians and educators to go even further, calling Nanking victims actors and the education system still too “anti-Japanese”. Unless they end up searching for the information themselves, most Japanese today have little idea why their neighbors begrudge them. It’s no wonder they view Hiroshima and Nagasaki mostly through the lens of their own victimhood and the “perpetrators”.
@@joaosantos5503 “butwhatabout”. Well the topic of this conversation is the film Oppenheimer, how the Japanese received it, and whether Japan is repentant over its war crimes, is it not? I didn’t say anything about how I view America’s side, you sure assume a lot.
@@joaosantos5503 For all its other faults, America does recognize its crimes FAR more than the Japanese do. We have similar nationalists in the US who try to push back against acknowledging our many historical crimes, but their influence is more felt in the educational system of certain states, whereas Japan has a nationwide problem with turning a blind eye to the ugly truth of their role in history. And in any case, Americans by and large have made efforts-successfully and unsuccessfully-toward rectifying those wrongs. I can't say the same for the Japanese people. They'd rather pretend the atrocities in Korea and China never happened than work to mend relationships with their descendants.
They got it so wrong its sad that Japan's education system has made them this ignorant. Literally go the Hiroshima memorial and you will NOT get a sense of American/Oppenheimer hatred. The message you will receive is basically "We decided to go into war and thus invited the consequences of war".
A lot of eyes on Japan with the release but really they don't seem to be having any discussions that other countries haven't already been having. I saw many arguments by Americans regarding whether the scope should have included Japanese victims or not. But it definitely must feel strange when what is a background event in the movie is the most horrifying single event in your city's history. That's an engagement perspective other countries won't have. It's expected there was not really an extreme response though since the film is definitely not kind to Oppenheimer.
Of course they didn't talk about Nagasaki and Hiroshima's victims, it's about Oppenheimer.. hence the name of the movie. I expected more interesting reviews.
@@indiwo1f it wasnt even the bomb... it was just a test, and also it was a real explosion so obviously theyre not gonna drop a real nuke. You come to a movie called Oppenheimer expect to see a deep insight into J. Robert Oppenheimers character, NOT a massive nuclear explosion in hiroshima
Don't understand why they keep playing the victim because of the a b0mbs. Germany was b0mbed as well(anyone remembers Dresden?) but Germany don't keep playing the victim because of that. I know It's hard to deal with the past, but if you can't watch a simple movie and feel regretful for your country pasy role, that's not a good way to deal with it
Are you saying that the civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not victims? There are victims in every country. Japan is the aggressor, which does not mean that there are no victims. Can't you understand??
The thing I found intriguing about this whole situation with WWII & with Pearl Harbor & the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in Hiroshima is every year on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor disaster is that delegates from Japan come over from Japan just to lay a memorial wreath at Pearl Harbor , the Japanese people are very regretful of what happened in the past , that tears at my heat strings that a country such as Japan can do this for the people of the United States , & on the anniversary of the Nagasaki & Hiroshima , delegates from the United States go to Japan to do the same . Two country’s coming together from tragedies that they both inflicted on each other . I,m glad that Japan is on the United States side & we are no longer enemies but friends & allies .
It was regretful because Japan really wanted to be friends with US and UK but we don't tolerate lies perpetuated upon us. The IWG under Bill Clinton and George Bush administration investigated the so-called Nanking and Unit 731. They spent 7 or 8 years investigating and about $30 million and they could not find a single evidence except for few the Bataan March and the Thai railway. That was true. That prompted Obama to come to Hiroshima and acknowledge the wrong doings or I guess that was an apology. The US-media spinned it off as not a real apology however the Japanese felt it was the most sincere thing a US president has done. In my opinion Obama has gained more respect from the Japanese than Trump.
It may be a sensitive show for Japanese but they must remember two things. It was war that started after the bombing of pearl harbor. Japan is a good people and I'm pleased we are now good friends.
@@buckaroobanzai7063 The US's involvement did not begin until after Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was the catalyst for America and their defense against Imperial Japan.
People who are saying, "The movie is called Oppenheimer, it's not about Hiroshima." It's kind of ignorant to say that. It's like showing Shindler's List to Holocaust survivors and their families and saying, "Shindler's List was about Shindler not the Holocaust" Without realizing or having the compassion to understand it's going to bring up a lot of emotions for them, that it's not going to bring up for you. Just as if a movie about the terrorists of Sept 11th will bring up a lot of emotions for New Yorkers who were there. You can tell them all you want that it's not about Sept 11th, but they're still going to have an emotional reaction to it.
the movie is calle doppenhiemer because it focuessed on his experience during the war and bringing in a new age of weaponary and technology, it shows his reaction to how the victims were impacted in the war in a few scenes and his regret in doing so. but the movie is mainly focused on oppenheimer as a character, rather than the bomb itself.
its understandable for the Japanese to feel discomfort with regards to the subject of the atomic bomb and the effects it had on their country, but this response to the film Oppenheimer specifically feels really overblown - considering the film ultimately has really little to do with the bomb: rather, it uses the development of the bomb as a plot device to tell the story of Oppenheimer the individual. Japanese people shouldn't be surprised that it opts to omit detailed descriptions of the effects of the bomb.
Unfortunately what many people fail to realize is this isnt about Nuclear Weapons or the Nuclear Bomb, ots about the man himself. A biography of the father of Atomic Bombs. Make no mistake, I also fell into this trap. "Why they didnt show more of the Nuclear War at the end?" "How come they didnt show them dropping the bomb?" "Im surprised they still continued the film after the detonation of the bomb". I failed to realize its not about the bomb. Its about him. Sure, its themed around it cause hello, father of Atomics, but its not primairly focused on it. I guess thats why this movie is so great. We all know Nuclear Weapons are bad, we all know people suffered, we all know that Nobody wins in Nuclear War, we know the capabilities of a Nuclear Bomb, and we all know the person responsible for creating it and dropping it, but we never knew the life of the person that created it. Let alone... we never knew the toll it had on the man that created Death, Destroyer of Worlds...
I mean compared to what the Japanese did in WW2.... The magnanimity of Americans after WW2 was Truly Profound. Japan is what it is today because of that, Germany too.
Um, I'm Filipino, but was borned and raised in the US. Up until very recently, there was huge wariness of the Japanese that permeated the entire culture, so I'm the last person to defend them. That said, what are you actually comparing? Comparisons in terms of war are utterly pointless. And saying "The magnanimity of Americans" is weird and jingoistic, bordering on nationalist. What you should be doing instead is understanding the gravity of each and every act by all participants, from the powers as a whole down to individual acts. "Comparing" these acts is insulting and reductive.
@@alejandroherrera5271 Not only Filipinos. The Indonesians suffered the most in Southeast and the Chinese in the East. i asked my classmate before from Korea why they beef w/ Japanese online is because they're not teaching ww2 history as extensive as the Germans. As a Vietnamese, i didnt even know we had the 2nd highest casualties in Southeast Asia just behind Indonesia.
@@earlyfriday7576 The beef between the Koreans and the Japanese goes even further back in the Feudal era of both countries. Not JUST WW2. Seems like they always held a bad blood towards each other way back. (Examples are the Imjin War and "Seikanron")
Buts it's not America's view on the bomb but oppenheimers view on the bomb and Idk why they think oppenheimer saw dropping it as a positive. The movie showed he was against dropping it on the Japanese
Ah so its revenge isnt it, then what make the difference between you and them, not a single "sorry about vietnam", "sorry about Iran", "sorry about our war crime in ww2"
Pearl Harbor was an attack on military not civilians. Must be hard for an American to understand knowing what you have done around the world including in Gaza right now
1:24 the movie is literally called “Oppenheimer” look man I get it but at the same time, it’s not about the bomb itself, it’s about the man who built it specifically.
My impression after visiting the memorial in Hiroshima (which I highly recommend - a day I will never forget), was that it was simply "pro-peace" and anti war, especially nuclear war. I did not get the impression that any effort was made to assign blame. The conversations I had with the tour guides (I took a National Geographic tour which was excellent), did point out something that differs from how we are taught, at least a bit. One element they felt that was under emphasized by Americans was that there was literally next to nothing left of Tokyo and other cities.They were all destroyed by bombing. So that when we say that dropping the bomb actually saved lives in the long run, they don't quite buy that. Another element was our belief that dropping the bomb was necessary to end the war. They feel that their surrender was already imminent. I'm not taking either side - I don't know. But it found it interesting. Finally, I do believe that they all know that they struck first, on Pearl Harbor. So it's not like they learn any twisted version of history or anything. One thing I did not feel in the slighest, even in Hiroshima, was any type of resentment toward Americans. After visiting the gut-wrenching memorial, an event outside was taking place in the peace park. Some young school girls and boys were going up one by one, and speaking forcefully (especially for Japanese people) against war. After just coming out of that museum, I completely lost my composure. A Japanese gentleman next to me smiled faintly, as if to say that he appreciated my tears. That evening, a great time was had by all eating okonomiyaki and going to a great little jazz club. I will never forget that wonderful day. I really love Japan.
Rmb, history is a foreign place. No use blaming or suffering for it. Best to learn, understand it and takeaway the experience. Considering the comment section, both sides of the war can do that
So you're telling me that second person say through this whole movie and got "oppenheimer was a saint," from it. Did she watch the same movie or did it show the part where he's regretting his entire life to the point of having PTSD while giving a speech where his creation was annihilating the crowd and him being tried for a war criminal?
There are over 200 characters in the movie and only ONE regrets his work. I can fully understand what the person means. You would see the movie with completely different eyes, if you were effected or have roots in Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
@chandelier6811 he wasn't in a trial but he was being interrogated by the government in that office near the end it was like 25 minutes of the movie where all his "friends/coworkers" were testifying against him and betrayed him to make him take the fall for creating a weapon of mass destruction even though the government told him to do it.
I live in Osaka the crazy part of this whole Oppenheimer thing is I am not sure what movie it was it might have been another Nolan folm even seeing Tenet they had the teaser for Oppenheimer yesrs ago. When I saw that I was like surprised, but then a few years later and all the drama around it. I grew up in California and am only 34 and have some roots in Kyoto and Osaka. It's crazy how all the old grudges are still prevalent here in Asia tho. I hward the last Toho Godzilla film didn't show in many Asian countries to because it portrays imoerial Japanese as Heroes. There have been attrocities all over the world. I just wish we can finally get over it all nit forget it but grow from it and leave it in the past. Easier said than done right. I am a big Nolan fan tho and all his movies get big praise out here so thos whole saga has been interesting.
People will never get along, that's the one thing you can learn from history that is irrefutable! Japan is actively denying and ignoring its past war crimes and their stance will not change. It's hopeless. If anything, hatred is brewing more and more, as is right nationalism in many countries!
If it makes things better, we got The Wind Rises, a movie about the A6M Zero fighter plane's lead designer. They made a film about the guy that made the tool that started the war. We made a film about the guy that made the tool that ended the war. It's all balanced.
The comparison and defensive reaction to the way a people feels when facing the collective trauma of another people is disgusting. These people should be heard and stories told and everyone including the United States should fulling address those feelings. It’s not a time to be like well they did this and they did that. I wonder when the people of all the countries learn that collective punishment isn’t a way to end hatred or war it really only breeds more allies to a cause and the circle of hate. These people have a right to their feelings and is an opportunity to learn from there pain and others in a whole.
My grandmother still lives with trauma from living through the Blitz, she survived when a bomb struck the house she was in. No child should ever experience that. I can't fathom the level of desolation Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced, and how those families picked up the pieces in the aftermath. When you are the only two nuclear bombed cities on the planet, it's understandable when movies that cover that event stir up complicated emotions, especially when the survivors and their children are still here.
I haven't seen the movie, but I feel it's purpose is to neither praise nor criticize the bomb, but rather to touch on the psychology of how far one would go to bring an end to war.
The first woman got it right, the 2nd guy didn’t, the movie isn’t proud of the bomb and the ending literally spells it out how dangerous this newfound weapon really is, its creator regrets ever making it
Yeah the 2nd and 3rd guys were off the mark. The film is literally about criticizing the advent of their use.
@@xc5103 honestly the generation gap.
I think he's referring to the Trinity Test itself, where the atomic explosion is shown in a terrifying yet beautiful way, which was cause for celebration among all of Los Alamos.
The rest of the film does pretty clearly spell out the dangers of such a power though, especially the final scene.
@@The12thDimension. but that's accurate, it was a monumental scientific achievement. It's the application which was and is terrifying. I don't think the movie could be much more clear about it.
@axt2 oh absolutely, not denying that at all. I can just imagine some Japanese audiences taking the initial explosion scene the wrong way as it's portrayed in a positive way, as the culmination of all Los Alamos' work paying off.
That's obviously not the films fault, I think that scene is absolute perfection, with the detonation being that of a beautiful horror released into the world. I'm just not surprised it received polarising reactions.
Japan's blind spot regarding the atrocities it committed during WWII is a huge blemish on its educational system and global brand.
Just as Americans are not responsible for what wars their government decides to participate in, or not.
The civilians of Japan are not responsible for the wars its government chose to participate in.
If you are going by this video Keep in mind that the citizens of Hiroshima are only speaking of their experience.
Their families were victims of war just as any civilians are victims of war.
Ah. An eye for an eye mentality. How wise.
That has nothing to do with recognising war crimes and teaching history the way it was @@jujubees711
@jujubees711 I am not necessarily blaming the civilians of Japan for the crimes committed by their soldiers and government (although the capacity to commit such heinous crimes in a systemic manner may, in some ways, reflect the shortcomings of a broader society). The blind spot that I refer to is a lack of education / awareness / critical self-reflection among Japanese people about those atrocities committed during WWII. I believe many civilians in Japan are either not sufficiently aware of their dark past or choose to brush it aside in their assessment of WWII, instead portraying themselves as mere victims of the bomb. Perhaps civilians in Japan cannot control the contents of their school curriculum but in this day and age with Internet access, I hope some of them choose to learn about their history more deeply.
@@DOXO881 So what does any of this have to do with the video?
As an American I can name many atrocities that the Allies committed (arguably worse than what we allege the Axis), and none of it was taught in our education system. To name a few...
Unspeakable things happened in Tokyo & Berlin during occupation...involving girls as young as 6. Gegenmiao, Holodomor, Starvation of POW's AFTER the war, countless bombings of German/Japanese civilian ships, Bengal famine, Internment camps of Japanese-Americans, Church massacres, and dismembering corpses of Axis troops.
The whole moral high horse angle of "Japan evil we good" is not only unjustified but distasteful. Epitome of UA-cam/Tiktok brain.
The eye for eye thing doesn't work here because the atomic bombs have been thoroughly debunked as a necessity. Just listen to what any relevant staff officer on the US side had to say about them. Nimitz, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Leahy, etc. "Unjustified and barbaric with no military strategic value". Also the bombs killed virtually no Japanese soldiers and only women, children, and elders for the most part.
My grandfather saw the bomb in Hiroshima. My great-grandfather was hit in Nagasaki. I don't think the film wasn't trying to say it was right/wrong, but that circumstances brought us to create such a destructive power and Oppie felt responsible for possibly dooming humanity. The interviewees must have misunderstood the intent. Personally, I enjoyed the movie and it's great that we live in an age where we can have movies and discuss these topics openly!
I'm glad we can talk half across the globe and touch a difficult subject.
My grandfather is a soldier in the Philippines. Participated in the Cabanatuan Prison raid that liberated many POW.
By August 1945 the fighting was on the northern part of Luzon island. Gen. Yamashita was making his last stand and fighting a stiff resistance. He surrendered in Sept 2 1945 after signing of japan's surrender.
If the war continues longer I don't if my grandfather would survive the war. I may not here today.
The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't deserve to die but it was the price to stop the war.
Millions more would have died in Asia Pacific, and more historical sites destroyed if the war extended for more than a year.
And what you guys did at Pearl harbor? Lol it's like the people offended forgot?
@Odysseus1776 you guys ? Not every japanese did that. Those where just a group of kamekasi pilots ordered by the military.
I think the film DEFINITELY says it was wrong.
@@Rexxsar101 Lol ya and they weren't taught about pearl Harbor that's pretty obvious
As an American living in Japan for over 12 years It is my opinion that there is little ownership taken on the Japanese side for the events of the war. I have been to the Memorial in Hiroshima and as incredibly moving as it is I felt that it was very light in assigning any of the blame for the war on Japan. Japanese schools tend to gloss over the events of WW2 and generally don’t touch on the war crimes committed in Japanese occupied territories. This leads to a younger generation that is ignorant to Japans role in the war.
The citizens had nothing to do what the government and it's soldiers did. They don't have to acknowledge that if they don't want to.
@@Rexxsar101probably one of the worst hot takes I have ever read
@@Rexxsar101Look up Kanto Massacre. A lot of Japanese civilians also did horrible things not just military
@@Rexxsar101 so under that line of thinking did the German citizens at the time share in any of the blame for the holocaust?
Americans barely take ownership of their misdeeds through history as well. You can't cherry pick.
I can’t believe the movie called Oppenheimer centers on Oppenheimer
yeah, that's why they traveled all the way to Hiroshima and interviewed people there. not Portland ,Oregon .
they might Just might have different perspective.
@@dfsdh432v9 The Japs didn't drop a nuke in anger on Portland (but I suppose they would have if they had invented the atomic bomb first to win the war).
I mean, I was surprised that First Man focused so much more on Neil Armstrong than the moon landing itself.
@@jaredf6205There is a big difference between landing on a different celestial body and dropping a bomb that murders hundreds of thousands and traumatizes an entire ethnic group for decades.
Centers on Oppenheimer from a certain perspective. Are you familiar with that word?
I'm Japanese, and I watched this movie today. I was moved by Oppenheimer's suffering and being at the mercy of his country. And also about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I regret that many Japanese people left the theater having misunderstood the purpose of the movie. I think this UA-cam video is biased. At least I haven't seen anyone around me say that this movie shouldn't be shown in Japan. In any case, please don't think that this video is representative of all Japanese people. I hope so.
I think that Japanese people have a right to react the way they did if they think the movie praised the bomb too much. Even during the movie, Oppenheimer is depicted as a kid with a new toy that is eager to test it. He PUSHED for the bomb to be used. It's only fair for the aftereffects to be shown as well. He was no "victim".
@@Halcon_Sierreno well it stopped the world war, someone has to do it unfortunately
@@JG-gn9oq Korea followed right after. So did it really "stop" anything? 😒
@@Halcon_Sierreno IDK how much the bombs effected Japan's decision to agree to unconditional surrender, I lean towards the idea that the USSR declaring war on Japan played a larger role. Given how brutal the Battle of Okinawa was I don't blame Truman for using the bombs to get the Japanese to surrender while avoiding an invasion of the main islands.
@@JG-gn9oq Dude there were hints of Japan's surrender before the bombs were even dropped.
I am Japanese. I am not good at English so I use translation. Sadly, in Japanese schools, they hardly teach about the Nanjing Massacre, Unit 731, and the terrible crimes committed by the Japanese military against the people of the Philippines and Indonesia during World War II. Personally, I am ashamed of this fact as a Japanese person and at the same time I am truly sorry for the victims. I think that people who are dissatisfied with this movie should think more about why the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. If we properly learned about the mistakes our ancestors made overseas, we would realize how foolish it is to act as mere victims.
no one hates Japanese people. I think they just have a problem with the government. but I got to admit You guys make great products though
We live in the present and to the future, as long as we know each others past, is fine.
A mistake I think, is to take the blame of other people actions. You are a human being not a country or a goverment.
All of the big countries of today have such a horrible past of war and slavery.
I’m Chinese, I love Japanese cultures including Animes and games. However, the fact that Japanese government trying to hide, get away from what they committed in WWII to China including murder of over 2 millions of armless citizens is unforgivable. Not a single official apology was made so far from Japanese government and the school in Japan don’t even teach those. If history is not learnt, those radical pro-war people would just repeat this again
@@InterviewsWithTheAncientsI’m very wrong, they killed over 18 millions of citizens in just China alone, not to mention Korea, and the rest of East Asian. This is just not acceptable
@@JavoCover That person is not representative of the Japanese society! Most people deny their past or are ignorant about it. They're not willing to learn or understand why thinks happened the way they did.
The Japanese are in no place to criticise the movie when they have yet to tell the history of what Japan did to the rest of Asia accurately. My Japanese friends who visit Singapore visit our museums and are shocked to find out how horrible the Japanese army treated us in the past. These are grown adults who were taught inaccurate histories from young.
I love Japan and much of its modern culture but I’m confused and disappointed that they continue to sweep all their horrible deeds under the carpet!!
If you are a native English speaker, you are no one to complain about historical events, you come from countries that colonized and enslaved too many people.
@deadname99_43 Yeah and guess what? We actually teach our kids about it and how bad it was. Not like Japan refusing to take accountability
@@deadname99_43Right because Africans didn’t enslave each other. Slavery is undoubtedly an abhorrent practice, and yet it was prevalent in virtually every corner of the globe at some point or another. It ultimately helps nobody to use such a broad stroke term such as ‘English-Speakers’.
@@drdoctor9733 sure about that? If you are European, the UK supports Israel and says nothing about the genocide that is happening in Africa, If you are from the United States, your government supports Israel, and has also caused instability in MANY other countries in order to benefit from and plunder their natural resources, even in my country we have a phrase, "poor us, so far from God, but so close to the United States." You have a bias if you come from a colonized first world country and want to think that your heritage is not stained with blood.
@@Gentrification. From your perspective as a native English speaker, it doesn't make sense to use that term, but the world is bigger than that, being a native English speaker means that you are already born with a privilege without realizing it.
I think they must've translated it bad, how was the bomb praised?? You can clearly see the discomfort after they realized what they created and even Oppenheimer's reaction in the film.
i think because the movie was more about Oppenheimer (which makes sense) and not the bomb. Of course the bomb aspect as a Japanese person will always outweigh anything presented in the film.
Some of the characters praised the bomb
@ThePursuitWODThey didn’t show any faces of the victims but they were very good in showing imagery of what victims of the bombs must’ve gone through. The whole scene where Oppie gives a speech about the bomb and immediately has visions of the people in front of him being flashed with light brighter than the sun, evaporated, those who weren’t being turned to charred bodies due to the heat, skin peeling off due to radiation and people vomiting. Just because the movie doesn’t dedicate a whole 10-15 minutes on its already long run time to show Japanese people dying (which would be REALLY weird since we’re looking this through Oppie’s perspective and he was never there to witness the bombs) seems more like a nitpicky criticism than really one done in good faith since the movies do well enough in showcasing the effects of the bomb. They just don’t do it for too long.
@ThePursuitWOD they didnt show that because it was about oppenheimers personal experiences (hence the sx scenes) and oppenheimer never saw an effected person so why would they show it?
@ThePursuitWOD and whats your obsession with making it more graphic it was already pretty graphic and a wide variety of audiences are watching that movie, some people arent comfortable with seeing that, i almost threw up after watching that scene it was gross
I’m living in another country and watched this movie as a Japanese. I didn’t feel this movie praised the nuclear bomb, and I thought Japanese should watch this movie: to understand how he made nuclear bomb, to know how others reacted this, we don’t know so much but how he felt about his invention of bomb.
Japanese, especially young generations, don’t know well about their own country’s history, what ancestors did to Koreans, how suffered WW2 not only inside of Japan also outside like in the US. When I visited Japanese American museum in LA, and participated in an event in Vancouver to watch the documentary movie about Korean and Japanese during the WW2, I realized how much I didn’t know about the own ancestors’ history and I knew only history how Americans were horrible, and how suffered Japanese during WW2, especially in Okinawa, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I can get the man from Hiroshima feels he can’t recommend Japanese to watch the movie, but to learn something in a different view, I think especially Japanese should watch this movie.
Yeah, Japan colonized Korea, doubled the Korean population, developed the economy, built schools and hospitals all over the country, etc. As a result, the literacy rate of the Korean people increased dramatically and the average life expectancy increased. And there was even a university in Seoul, whereas even Germany did not build a university in Poland. And the status system and slavery that were common during the Korean Empire were abolished.
The Japanese people should know this.
@@asdfghjjhgfIf the atrocities committed outweigh the good things, it is understandable that people and historians will tend to remember and give more emphasis to the dark events
You guys forget it's not just Korea they colonized, literally nearly all of Asia was and they did so tyrannically so we are really understating how hypocritical Japan is for pointing out wrongs when they themselves are the agents of said wrongs.
Talking about museum, try 731 unit and Nanjing memorial. Learn some real history.
The only countries that the Japanese had a long colonial involvement with were Korea, Taiwan, and Palau. Manchukuo was only occupied for 10 years, and the other Southeast Asian countries were only occupied for 2-3 years during the Pacific War. And the Japanese invested huge amounts of capital in Korea and Taiwan, which they tried to assimilate into Japan, and colonial modernization occurred. Today's North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan are the children of Japan.
The movie aimed to be hyperfocused on Oppenheimer himself and his perspective from its inception. It's under no obligation to depict the bombings, and it wouldn't have made any sense whatsoever. Also, Oppenheimer's story has never been in the spotlight until last year. Meanwhile, the bombings have been depicted in dozens of movies across many decades, they can watch those if they want
Spoiler: they do not want to watch those or acknowledge blame.
Yeah most Americans would have briefly heard about the atomic bombs from the radio or newspaper. The true reality of what happened is hard to wrap your mind around but it was pretty out of sight and out of mind for them.
We can say all we want but we would never even pretend to understand. Most that died from the bomb wasn't from the immediate evaporation but was a slow death that took over two weeks. Now add to that seeing your family going through the same.
Even if you have been at Guantanamo you would still not come close to understanding.
Japan is now one of our most critical ally and as a friend let them do as they must. I don't know when's the last time the Japanese told us how we should feel about their movie or what not.
did you even watch this video? no one said they wanted to watch the bombings
Perfectly said.
This movie is about Oppenheimer not Hiroshima or Nagasaki, or about the war in the Pacific which is why the movie is called OPPENHEIMER
Bro relax. They are just giving their thoughts because they are the future generation of the people who got hit. You want them to feel happy and excited they saw a movie on the weapon that killed their ancestors? That's not realistic.
@@Rexxsar101well as a generation of people whose grandparents were harmed by the Japanese during the WWII, I would like to share my discontent that their govt continues to obscure the truth of WWII to them. How can we learn to avoid the mistakes from the past if we choose to alter history?
@@Rexxsar101 Its incredibly disingenuous to say the movie praised the bomb like the kid in the glasses said though. Nolan made a concerted effort at the end to show Oppenheimer was sick over it all and understood the devastation of it. And that the US government was callous about the devastation. Not a fair wrap at all.
its mid compared to minus one anyways kid
@@Rexxsar101 Im just giving my reaction to their reaction. I see alot of similar criticism not just in this interview that they didnt focus enough on the victims of the bombing in Japan, im simply responding to that specific critique.
Their ancestors weren't saints either
true. babies killed by bayonets and the "comfort women"...
even the Germans thought the Japanese atrocities were too much. ..
Neither were yours does that mean I can commit crimes against you and shift the blame?
@@drakko1635 thats what "Either" in his sentence means. Hes saying "Like ours, Their ancestors werent saints."
Regardless, both of you made awful points that miss the purpose of the movie and the perception of it in context of the video.
And 1+1=2
no ancestors were saints. We all killed and taken; that's how we all survived.
@randomvideoboy1 Correct, Japanese soldiers were not victims.
But the civilians in the city were 100% victims.
Japanese react to oppenheimer : 😵😭😱
Japanese react to their cruelty during ww2 : 😶🤔🤫
"What internet warriors think..."
Because they're not taught about it.
True!
You’re ignorant to what America has done. Your comment can be just as well directed at you.
@@HentsSauce And the ones who read about it all declare that it's bs propaganda. In Japan, you either don't know it or you call it bs and ridicule other nations and call the atrocities a lie.
As a Korean I get dumbfounded whenever Japanese elders openly express their hatred towards Korea. Like tf you don't have the right to feel anything other than guilt
chill. the video is about hiroshima residents reacting to the movie oppenheimer. literally zero mention about korea in this video.
@@ShohTann nah man, this video was about how the Japanese are still dangerously oblivious about their war crimes. What I'm saying is even the elders who are old enough to have experienced it second hand express open hatred towards Koreans as if somehow we were the perpetrators, and this is largely due to the Japenese government's determination to deny their history by going as far as manipulating/omitting facts from their school history books and discouraging history as a subject. The viseo didn't mention Korea but the attitude displayed by the people make the subject very relevant.
Exactly, you have no right to hate the victims for blaming you for what you did wrong
Japan is a country that looks like a democracy from the surface but in reality it has been dominated by a single political party for over 50 years. That ain’t a democracy to me, that’s a bunch of modern day shoguns willingly keeping their subjects oblivious to their own history like they’re a bunch of sheep.
@@HappB5 as someone who came from a country that japan had invaded, i agree that they should acknowledge their past, i admire their cultures and all but history is still history
But i've never seen any japanese elderly express hate towards korean
Side note : i still don't think the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki are justified
They should really be more like Germany and own up to what happened in the past especially what they did to China, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Myanmar, New Guinea, Guam, East Timor, and Nauru.
You American are the last one have right to talk about the crimes
@@iraqi7978skill issue
@@iraqi7978 no atleast the people of america admit to their crimes. Japan has yet to apologize and continues to act as if they were victims when the bomb was one of the only ways to stop them.
@@iraqi7978 They've owned up to their past, Japan hasn't. It's not the Japanese fault what their ancestors did, nor is it the Americans. But it is important to acknowledge atrocities of the past so they do not happen again.
The US protected them from ever having to acknowledge it in order to keep tensions in the region for it to use to it's own ends.
The movie was never about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It’s about Oppenheimer’s life. It’s not supposed to tell the perspective of the Japanese.
Can't blame them. They were only at the theaters for themselves and cared less about Oppenheimer himself. Hard to blame them. It's difficult to empathise with terrorists. Japan was bad, but didn't deserve Hiroshima either.
@@oosmanbeekawoo I think it’s kind of a stretch to call Americans the terrorists in this situation when Japan first attacked Pearl Harbor unprovoked. Not to mention, all the atrocities they were committing in China and all over Asia. Imperialist Japan was unhinged.
The movie was mainly about the nuke created about Oppenheimer. But yet some wanted the whole story of the destruction of Japan? 🤔
Japan loves watching their cities get destroyed. Why do you think they keep making Godzilla movies?
@@drdoctor9733 This feels like you completely lost the plot of the original Godzilla movies. Those movies were tightly connected to the atomic bomb aspect. I think it could be said that the devastation they experience from the nuke drop was so much that Godzilla is something like a poetic manifestation of that destruction. So Japanese people aren’t fond of seeing their cities being destroyed anymore than Americans do when they watch Independence Day.
You act like that's the dumbest idea you've ever heard lol the nuke that ended up being used in Japan... as an idea it makes sense cuz the movie did kinda gloss over that real easy.
@@eufrosniad994Everything you just said, with all due respect, concerns the original _Gojira_ film. Most Godzilla film through later decades are action movies that don't have as strong a message, and are mostly Godzilla beating up other monsters (often in cities). So yes, Japanese can enjoy seeing their cities get destroyed, just like Americans feel when they see heroes and villains smash each other through buildings in New York (or watch _monster movies_ set in New York for that matter).
@@YukyDoodleAlmost like that's not actually what the movie is about.
Seems a lot of people worldwide failed to realise the film is not really supposed to be about the bomb. It's a biopic about Oppenheimer and his rise and fall from grace as he developed a god complex over his work.
oh look another uneducated person who seems to think that a film about the atomic bomb isnt about the atomic bomb. seems like you need to watch the movie
It's a movie about Oppenheimer but not about the bomb
@@watchingvideos786illiteracy and inability to understand visual stimuli is such a problem these days.. Present a film about the atomic bomb and you seem to think it's not about the atomic bomb.
The last kid interviewed understand that
Haven't watched the movie but did he regret inventing the bomb?
"the film also depicts the atomic bomb in a way that seems to praise it"
"failed to tell the stories of the victims of Hiroshima"
I don't think they really understood what the movie is about...just goes to show up until now Japanese youths are being conditioned to think they were the victims...
I think the “praise” that guy described I think is something a lot of people would miss, not just (but mostly) the Japanese, but it’s tragic irony that’s depicted in the film; that even something horrible and devastating, if people dedicate years to make a thing, they’re going to rejoice in their accomplishment. When the characters were cheering after the success of the test, it’s not an “‘Murica hoorah!” moment, but an ironic moment of weakness in humanity. It’s disappointing that the overall opinion in Japan of Oppenheimer misses that irony.
its true , a same example is british empire . Today British people do not know anything about the horrors british commited on its colonies especially INDIA and AFRICA . A huge amount of slavery wealth were taken but they are still proud of british empire .
@@Iamdead666this is true. I'm from Scotland, and I only remember learning about 3 things in history class. William wallace, JFK assassination, and Hitler. (I didn't take history, so I don't know what else they teach)
@@MobscastBlackOut They do not teach anything , if you look up specific british history youtubers they will still try to justify colonialism
I think they misunderstood the film.
they are because the government delayed them for such a long time without public reason as to why. People mistook the intent and possible negative intent of the movie.
i think the film misunderstood history
i think the film misunderstood history
I believe that they did understand the film to an extent, but wished to have a Japanese perspective. But of course that is not the point of the movie.
I don't think you read the subtitles. The 2nd and 3rd person clearly understand the movie is not from Japan's perspective.
Do not forget the atrocities the japanese soldiers made in the Philippines back in the days. They were severely inhumane. :(
Lieutenant General Hong Sa-Ik was in charge of the prisoners in Philippines. He was found guilty and was executed. If you look at the bigger picture, all the Asian countries are still third world countries. It's all due to hundred years of colonization from other countries. You could've held more cultural value but the damage has already been done.
@@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623 So its now Korea's fault right? LOL
So? I absolutely see no correlation between your comment and the video or are you suggesting that thousands of Japanese deserved to die because they were inhumane?
@@mosesebenazer WW2 was rough on the civilians of all the belligerent nations except the US, it's good to be surrounded by friends and fishes, but I don't blame Truman for dropping the bombs to try and force Japan to surrender and avoiding an invasion of the home islands. An invasion of Japan would've been so much worse for everyone but most of all the Japanese.
@@killgoretrout9000
I don't know why Japan are so trying hard to potray themselves as also the victims of WW2 when they are actually wreaking havoc on half of Asia, Germany are not potray themself as a victim of the regime so they must accepting whatever Nzi regime did back then.. If the Japanese still being able to reject this film or pretty much asking for their point of views that means the sense of defeat was not there
@ThePursuitWODit did though, Oppenheimer very clearly states he regrets making the bomb and the end credit scheme shows the dangers of the bomb destroying the world
@ThePursuitWOD Well as long as Japan doesnt try to take over most of Asia again I think we should be good.
@ThePursuitWODthe end of the movie literally shows you how Nuclear Weapons can cause the end of the world… did you miss the scene where the entire earth went up in flames? If that’s not anti nukes or denouncing nuclear weapons, I don’t know what to tell you 🤦♂️
@ThePursuitWOD by that logic all weapons are immoral, they can all be used on civilians and cause disfigurement
I think it's not really the individual Japanese's fault more so the government's corruption and archaic idea of honour. Their 'honour' being that they need to prevent the Japanese from knowing about the crimes their country committed in World War 2.
The movie's title is Oppenheimer. Not Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
There's a short film for that.
The movie's subject is on the man who lead the creation of the bomb.
there shouldnt have been a film made about pearl harbour then... should have just made a short film for that.
if you are not interested in what they think, do something else.
title of video is Residents of Hiroshima, Japan react to 'Oppenheimer' NOT whatever you want to hear.
@@tocreatee5736 and im reacting to the reaction of the japanese who watched the movie.
If anything, this movie reinforce the idea of nuclear controls and prohibition of nuclear weapon proliferation
duh
Dude they are japanese. Of course they are going to feel weird about it.
It's like if they made a movie called Hitler about Hitler and interview jews on what they think about the movie.
1) I disagree with the last dude. The movie “Oppenheimer”, is literally about a guy named Oppenheimer, not Hiroshima or Nagasaki
2) I don’t think they have the right to criticize the film considering Japan still brushes off and downplays their atrocities across Asia
1) - saying a film about Oppenheimer isn't gonna also be about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is like saying a film about Freddie Mercury isn't gonna be about music.
2) Of course he has a 'right' to criticise it. Is he ignorant about certain facts about the war? Probably. But so are you dude. Unless you're an academic who's studied the motives of historical actors within Japan, you're probably just another American who sees 'Japanese in WW2' as an evil monolith. That's the only way I can imagine anyone could justify obliterating an entire developed city of civilian families with a nuclear bomb.
@@paranoidlawyer I am not even American lol, I am from South East Asia on one of the countries that Japan conquered in the past
@@_nigelgaming That makes very little material difference to my previous comment. You still leave me confused as to why you think a regular-seeming modern Japanese man has 'no right' to criticise the destruction of an entire developed city full of ordinary civilians. Like I actually just have no idea what you mean by 'he has no right'.
Are you someone who objectively studies the motives of various actors during the war, from the American and Japanese sides, using both primary and secondary sourcss? Or are you just okay with dropping nukes on 300,000 civilians because... Japanese soliders invaded your country?
He has a right to criticize it, as does anyone who watches a film. He might be a bit ignorant about the war and japans role, but he and most people his age have been lied to by the government and education systems to the point that they wont believe it if you told them what japan did.
@@GorillaWithACellphone It's mostly lies by omission of important facts and the subtle transmission of anti-guilt rhetoric about the little they do know. Most people are apathetic about politics, and as soon as they're confronted with the facts as accepted by the rest of the world, they feel threatened
Do they teach about Pearl Harbor in Japan and how it was Japan that started a conflict with the US that got them involved in the war in the first place?
the Japanese government decided not to teach the next generation about the atrocities they committed during the war unfortunately the people of Japan probably wondering why there’s so much tension in the region so you can see why people might be aggravated about the education system at least Germany has a memorial for the holocaust victims
@@PeterDiaz666 There's a reason why majority of Asian countries are not first world countries. They got corrupted by westerners.
The conflict with the U.S. began long before that. The main culprits were the U.S. forcing Japan to open its borders and imposing unequal treaties.
This forced Japan to become militarism and imperialism.
Pearl Harbor was the result of US expansion in the Pacific...but Americans aren't taught that...😊
yes we teach about pearl harbor, invasion of korea and nanjing massacre
however war crimes around SEA are rarely teached which is a shame though
It's baffling to me when people think the movie praises oppenheimer or bomb? Like it literally ends with someone saying he is responsible for the potential destruction of the world and he stares in horror down the camera lense? Like the movie is very critical of both him and the bomb.
90 percent of people who critisized Oppenheimer clearly didn't understand it
I'm gonna assume he took a bathroom break right after the bomb test-- e.g. he missed Oppie's panic-attack and the conversation with the President
@@samwallaceart288 people see what they want to see and remember what they want to remember
"Residents of Japan are confused about why a movie called Oppenheimer, based on a biography about Oppenheimer, tells the story from Oppenheimer's perspective"
Cant get a perspective of the japanese. The whole story is about the reason of developing the bomb and finding out how dangerous this bomb is and how it could change mankind. Also shows the perspective of the people developing it and the consequence that came with it. If you want to watch the perspective about it, grave of the fireflies is a good but sad one to watch.
Grave of the fireflies is from fire bombing but yeah similarly devastating.
The first Japanese film to address the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima was released in 1952, the year the American occupation ended. The film “Children of Hiroshima” was commissioned by Japan’s teachers Union. Although the print quality is poor, the film is available for free on UA-cam..Recommended.
Maybe they should show the mass atrocities committed by the Japanese that forced the use of the bomb? The acts they committed on pow’s, the Chinese, and the Koreans is as bad or worse than anything done by Germany.
@@johnplantangenet7224 Who's denying that? Why are you engaging in what-aboutism?
@@BlownMacTruck In Japan, politicians admitting to war crimes is the same as saying good bye to their career. Also, they are systematic in educating their people in providing surface level history of ww2 that barely or doesnt even discuss their war crimes. "They deserve it" is a valid sentiment of the victims until the Japanese recognizes its war crimes.
I bet they were blown away by this Incredible Film
The Japanese instead should watch Men behind the Sun and the City of Life and Death. What happen to the Chinese during ww2 huh? lol
Does that justify the killing of a hundred thousand innocents in a country that was in talks to surrender even before the bomb?
City of Life and Death is such a sad trip… I think in general the Japanese populace are so far removed due to their lack of recognition that they’d say it went overboard.
Men Behind the Sun did get a release in Japan back in the late 80s, but the director received many death threats from Japanese far-right wingers, so he pulled the movie from theaters
what is happening to the Chinese with Xi Jinping concerns me more
We went to Hiroshima and visited the museum. We had a survivor tour guide (very sweet man) showing us around the memorials and asked if all of us (most are Americans and two are Canadians) had watched Oppenheimer before, which we all said yes. We didn’t know Japan didn’t release the movie yet, but our tour guide said he is excited to see it once it had been released.
Did any Japanese wonder...why? they got nuke in the first place?
Quick way to end the war in the east. They would not do the same to their kin in Germany.
Probably difficult for the innocent children within a few kilometres of it
@@motorola9956 Germany surrendered before they got the chance to use it on them. They were originally making the bomb in a race against Germany.
@@motorola9956 You mean the Americans wouldn’t do it to Germany? Because they were literally developing it FOR dropping it in Germany. But they were beaten by the time it was finished.
Well the movie itself is not about the massacre or ww2, but Oppenheimer story including how he felt guilt after he finished his work. This gives Japanese a new perspective
I think Oppenheimer being excluded once completing the bomb was part of the point. The bombings arent shown but they show him imagine what will happen, because he didnt see it or control it.
Exactly. Not showing the bombings were essential in making us feel how he felt, which was just an announcement at the radio. He did not see the deaths. He could just imagine them as he did at his speech.
No one can change what has happened in the past. I wanna believe we'll never cause like this again.
The conversation between Oppenheimer and Einstein revolves around how guilty Oppenheimer feels having created such a destructive weapon.
God forbid the movie "Oppenheimer" is about a guy named Oppenheimer
@ThePursuitWOD Me when i spread misinformation
@@johnan3398 fr
Good to see that the response is somewhat nuanced although people, not just Japanese, seem to not understand the historical context. The fact is, that Oppenheimer and the Manhattan project saved the lives of 300-500k combatants and millions of civilians. As for the notion that surrender was imminent, have a look at the "Kyūjō incident" here on YT.
for them this is like a flashback..
I am glad Japanese went to see it. Its supposed to be uncomfortable. Its supposed to make people NOT want to repeat the mistakes of the past again. Russians should see it too...Japan is a peaceful country these days, but they should also not forget their own atrocities, not only against the US but against China...history is important. The truth is that without the bomb, Japan would never have surrendered.
@Fightforlife1 at least some of them are starting to accept it, that's a first step, but now it's the government turns to accept it
@Fightforlife1nobody claims it never happened
@@acoustic_.yet they all try to forget about it by bringing up another countries atrocity. By engaging in what aboutism, it shows how they hate taking accountability and it’s baffling.
@@Jason-eu5zx I think your perspective is skewed from what you have seen. As far as I know, most japanese accept Nanking and 731 and acknowledge it.
@@acoustic_.dont they remove it from textbooks?
I thought the movie was very well done, but I think people had the wrong idea about what the movie would depict. Other than some short sequences in the film, it does not show the destruction and the terrible loss and aftermath of the atomic bomb. It is understandably from an American perspective because the film is an autobiography of Oppenheimer, not a film about the atomic bomb itself.
The movie does not praise the use of the atomic bomb, but it does seem to praise its creation as a scientific breakthrough. The whole last third of the movie is about him struggling with the fact that he created something that could destroy the world and working to make sure they were never used again, angering his associates and him ultimately losing his security clearance because he was deemed a possible communist
@ThePursuitWOD I understand where they are from, and I know all about Hiroshima. I have been there and learned a lot about the effects of the Atomic bomb and how terrible of an atrocity it was.
When I was there my brothers and I were approached by an old man in his late 70s who's mother and father survived the blast, his grandparents, sadly died in the bombing. The man told us everything he knew about the bombing, his family, and showed us old photo albums. He even brought us to many memorials near the atomic bomb dome. You gain a lot of perspective when you actually visit the place and talk to people about their experiences. You can see why Hiroshima's atomic dome is often used as backdrop to protest war.
I feel like 99.99% of people can agree that we never want nuclear weapons to ever be used again. The whole final third of the movie, Oppenheimer becomes a staunch opponent to the use of any nuclear weapons. I think the movie was very clear about denouncing their use without just having someone come on screen and say, "nukes are bad"
They should watch City Of Life And Death to understand how suffer the Chinese during the Japanese colonialism (ww2) and it's also happened in other southeast of Asian countries, they treat us so bad and now the Japanese people just act like they are victim while watching Oppenheimer instead of remembering their war crimes in the past
They areso respectful about it.
The movie only showed one nuke explosion that didn't look like a nuke at all
yes because christopher nolan wasnt allowed to use actual nuclear weapons
bro expects them to drop an actual nuke and film it
@@omniyx7837 Bro CGI exists... Nolan was just stubborn to not use it
That was the trinity test, not a portrayal of a nuke explosion. Nolan chose to not show the bombings.
About 2 million Vietnamese people died of starvation during the Japanese occupation of Vietnam in 1945, a dark history of my country.
I WONDER HOW THE RESIDENTS OF HIROSHIMA WOULD REACT WHEN SHOWN UNIT 731 HUMAN TESTING LAB BY THEIR GOVERMENT????????
We can tell who is telling the truth and who is lying just by reading your comments. Almost everything is just written in vague information. Especially desperate comments with caps.
@Fightforlife1 They were of Japanese prisoners released from China. That I believe was a CCP funded video. I just remembered it was a colorized video so it was made few decades after the war.
@Fightforlife1 The Chinese were using autopsy of dead Japanese citizens for 731. Pictures of Jinan incidents for example.
@@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623 so what's the truth? as bad as it might sound, but data collected by unit 731 contributed to the researches and development of modern medicine only because they were testing people like rats. their existence is undeniable.
@@Z_RE0 The information presented in a lot of videos never elaborate whether the victims died from battle or from systematic massacre. It never explains the kind of tools and machines they used, what companies were involved, or how much funding was involved in this project. It's always the same information with no real breakthrough in discovery. Every video like this is narrated in fairy tale story that relies on your emotional impulses rather than providing real facts.
The current box office revenue is 2578,000$. If it can keep up the momentum, it looks like it will be 16,533,000$ by the end of the screening period.
If only they felt this way about their own war victims.. any mention of their war crimes is met with attempts to minimize or deny, and with hostility
@fleurdanon well yeah but that does not change the fact that they still never properly acknowledged their tyrannical history. Not really “what-about-ism” since I am putting what they said back on them, more pointing out their hypocrisy is all.
@fleurdanon What are you talking about? The US doesn't deny the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened like how Japan denies their murder of innocents. There is already plenty of media dedicated to the bombings.
@fleurdanon Okay but why does the movie need to actually show the bombings in it's own scene? It makes no sense, the whole movie takes place from the perspectives of Oppenheimer and Strauss and even from the perspective of Strauss it heavily focuses on Oppenheimer. Randomly throwing in a scene of the bombings and going outside the perspectives of the characters would be a bit obnoxious.
I think the way Nolan portrayed it in the movie was appropriate because it didn't stray from the focus of the film. The audience learned of the bombings the same way someone who was far away from the war would have, through radio and photo slides.
@fleurdanonif Japan is selectively omitting their violent brutality, then it is wrong.
If Japan has not apologise ar acknowledge what they have done in their past, then they are wrong.
End of story.
You have brainfk yourself into thinking otherwise
@@Ely-zf4ytthey don't deny it but going by the comments on this clearly there are plenty of people still think it was a good idea to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent people living under an authoritarian government, ignoring the other options available at the time.
Even in their (misplaced) criticism, they are so polite.
For contrast, imagine how White Britishers would react to Sardar Udham.
You know nothing about White British people.
also, kishida in recent us senates speech told that russian nuclear is dangerous(duh,of course) but forgot he talk it in front of the one dropped it on his country😂
I like how they forget that America wasn’t involved in the war until the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They should be blaming their government from back then more than anything.
And yes, I get that JP youth aren’t taught well about WWII, but the internet literally exists and we live in a time where different cultures interact irl constantly. You can’t use ignorance as an excuse at this point.
This may be an unrelated question, but when will Godzilla Minus One release in the rest of Asia. I'm still waiting for it here in the Philippines.
When Philipines stop yelling about the batlle of YULTONG m
@@jessicaregina1956 No, that's not a hot topic today. It's now about China being aggressive in the West Philippine Sea, and the possibility of war on Thailand through us.
It won't I think, toho is not interested for whatever reason
If u want to watch the movie you have to buy a disc with English subtitles
the movie is educational and gives you a glimpse of what happened. It doesn't necessarily put the US in a bad light but rather gives you a deeper insight of why and how things unfolded related to the Atomic Bomb on the other side of the world.
All those American boys who died on Iwo Jima and other Pacific islands; the way they treated British and Australian/NZ POWs; the terrible crimes in Nanking before the war ... the Japanese don't have the right to complain. 😡
So are you refering to the japanese in WW2 or the current japanese who wasnt even born on that era😂
@@SecretSev7enyes
The Japanese attacked China before it even began world war two. Get your facts right.
@@SecretSev7en
July 7th 1937- September 1945. They murdered innocent civilians longer then the Holocaust happened.
Oh and Americans do ? Despite America having a nasty history of owning black slaves and discriminating them after for generations? Every country has a horrible history pal.
@@SecretSev7en the Japanese government need to act like germany
"Failed to tell the stories of the victims" it's called Oppenheimer, it's a movie about Oppenheimer, not the atomic bomb. It's based on a book. It is portrayed that Oppenheimer learned of the Japanese bombings the same way everyone else did, via news radio. Like what, did the audience not know this coming into into the theatre.
I don't think the movie praised the bomb, as one man told....
Yeah well let's get a Korean reaction. Thats going to be an entirely different conversation.
We must not turn a blind eye on our history so we have a better chance of not repeating it. This is true not just for Japan but for all of us humanity.
imagine Germany saying the holocaust never existed
@@PeterDiaz666??? The statement of the person you're replying to literally agrees with you. He said 'we must not turn a blind eye on our history'.
People in China, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Myanmar, New Guinea, Guam, East Timor, and Nauru have not forgotten the tens of millions of people killed by the Japanese before and during the Second World War. Every family in these countries has a story about their experience with the Japanese. The 400,000 comfort women in these countries are not forgotten.
Each of the two bombs had a different design, and they wanted to know the effectiveness of each design. The Russians were close to achieving victory over the Japanese on the mainland, prompting the US to drop the bombs before that occurred. It would have been unfavorable for the US if Japan surrendered to Russia. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were deliberately spared during the firestorm bombing of Japanese cities to observe the effects of air-burst nuclear explosions on civilian populations.
Their indifference, denial, lack of curiosity, and viewing themselves as the victims of wars ensure that history will repeat itself when given the opportunity.
unfortunately, the Japanese claim it never happened, and just my opinion, they got away with it, but I have to admit They did a great job of brainwashing the next generation to the point, they don’t believe any of the victims claims or maybe it’s just called arrogance and self-centered
Cool, but what do people in Nagasaki think too?
I'm Japanese and I watched The Bricklayer today. It was very good.
So did you learn how to lay bricks?
@@oosmanbeekawoo I did. Now I'm interested in becoming a beekeeper.
The film is about the people who created the bomb and the trials and tribulations to achieve it. We know what they used it for but the movie isn't about that at all. There's no reason for a japanese perspective.
I got chills when the college student called Oppenheimer a victim of the war.
日本人として、この映画に対する理解が足りていない日本人にも腹が立つが、日本人について何も知らないのに知っているように誤ったコメントをしている人にも腹が立つ。俺はこの映画を去年からずっと待ってたのに。わざわざ広島でインタビューする意味も分からない。聞きたかった答えが聞けて良かったですね？😂
Niankin 1937 🇯🇵☠️
@@Perfil.1 it wasn't exist
なんかこんな感想しか出てこない日本人も理解が足りないし、そりゃ被ばく者が身内にいてもおかしくないような広島でインタビューすれば、被害者意識が強くなるだろうしそれをわざわざ、つまみ上げて戦争犯罪を否定している被害者面をした日本人という構図でむりやり叩く外国人も頭が良くない。人間っていうのはこんなに相手の置かれた状況とか想像できないものなのか。想像を絶する知性の低さだよ。
The third interviewee calling Oppenheimer a perpetrator but also a victim felt really true
Shows how unrepentant they are over their own war crimes.
Not true , every year at Pearl Harbor Japanese delegate come from Japan to lay a wreath at Pearl Harbor , & tell the American people how sorry they are for the devastation they inflicted on Pearl Harbor & the United States does the same at Hiroshima and Nagasaki every year on their respected anniversaries , look it up , it’s out there .
@@robertlee8400Sure there are some ceremonies. But on the whole Japan has not reckoned with its past anywhere near to the extent that Germany has. Their education system basically skims over Japan’s role in WWII. It usually gives the barest of facts like names and dates, but emphasizes things farther in the past like the samurai era. Nationalistic, revisionist forces in the country have pressured politicians and educators to go even further, calling Nanking victims actors and the education system still too “anti-Japanese”.
Unless they end up searching for the information themselves, most Japanese today have little idea why their neighbors begrudge them. It’s no wonder they view Hiroshima and Nagasaki mostly through the lens of their own victimhood and the “perpetrators”.
@@acslater017 How about America reckoning with its past? It's easy to point fingers while ignoring your own country's atrocities, ain't it?
@@joaosantos5503 “butwhatabout”. Well the topic of this conversation is the film Oppenheimer, how the Japanese received it, and whether Japan is repentant over its war crimes, is it not? I didn’t say anything about how I view America’s side, you sure assume a lot.
@@joaosantos5503 For all its other faults, America does recognize its crimes FAR more than the Japanese do. We have similar nationalists in the US who try to push back against acknowledging our many historical crimes, but their influence is more felt in the educational system of certain states, whereas Japan has a nationwide problem with turning a blind eye to the ugly truth of their role in history. And in any case, Americans by and large have made efforts-successfully and unsuccessfully-toward rectifying those wrongs. I can't say the same for the Japanese people. They'd rather pretend the atrocities in Korea and China never happened than work to mend relationships with their descendants.
They got it so wrong its sad that Japan's education system has made them this ignorant. Literally go the Hiroshima memorial and you will NOT get a sense of American/Oppenheimer hatred. The message you will receive is basically "We decided to go into war and thus invited the consequences of war".
A lot of eyes on Japan with the release but really they don't seem to be having any discussions that other countries haven't already been having. I saw many arguments by Americans regarding whether the scope should have included Japanese victims or not. But it definitely must feel strange when what is a background event in the movie is the most horrifying single event in your city's history. That's an engagement perspective other countries won't have. It's expected there was not really an extreme response though since the film is definitely not kind to Oppenheimer.
The only truth of the past, is to grow from your atrocities and trauma rather than dwell and linger on it.
Of course they didn't talk about Nagasaki and Hiroshima's victims, it's about Oppenheimer.. hence the name of the movie. I expected more interesting reviews.
The movie was a huge letdown. It makes the nuclear bomb look like a joke. The acting was good but the movie itself was incredibly dissapointing.
@@indiwo1f it wasnt even the bomb... it was just a test, and also it was a real explosion so obviously theyre not gonna drop a real nuke. You come to a movie called Oppenheimer expect to see a deep insight into J. Robert Oppenheimers character, NOT a massive nuclear explosion in hiroshima
Don't understand why they keep playing the victim because of the a b0mbs. Germany was b0mbed as well(anyone remembers Dresden?) but Germany don't keep playing the victim because of that.
I know It's hard to deal with the past, but if you can't watch a simple movie and feel regretful for your country pasy role, that's not a good way to deal with it
Oh really
Are you saying that the civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not victims? There are victims in every country. Japan is the aggressor, which does not mean that there are no victims. Can't you understand??
UNIT 731
The movie is called Oppenheimer so it's gonna be based on Oppenheimer.
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Oppekepe
The movie is about Oppenheimer and his struggles with what he created. It is about the Bomb but it also isn’t.
The thing I found intriguing about this whole situation with WWII & with Pearl Harbor & the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in Hiroshima is every year on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor disaster is that delegates from Japan come over from Japan just to lay a memorial wreath at Pearl Harbor , the Japanese people are very regretful of what happened in the past , that tears at my heat strings that a country such as Japan can do this for the people of the United States , & on the anniversary of the Nagasaki & Hiroshima , delegates from the United States go to Japan to do the same . Two country’s coming together from tragedies that they both inflicted on each other . I,m glad that Japan is on the United States side & we are no longer enemies but friends & allies .
It was regretful because Japan really wanted to be friends with US and UK but we don't tolerate lies perpetuated upon us. The IWG under Bill Clinton and George Bush administration investigated the so-called Nanking and Unit 731. They spent 7 or 8 years investigating and about $30 million and they could not find a single evidence except for few the Bataan March and the Thai railway. That was true. That prompted Obama to come to Hiroshima and acknowledge the wrong doings or I guess that was an apology. The US-media spinned it off as not a real apology however the Japanese felt it was the most sincere thing a US president has done. In my opinion Obama has gained more respect from the Japanese than Trump.
the movie in now way praises the bomb, Oppenheimer's descision to create it, or the descision to drop it
It may be a sensitive show for Japanese but they must remember two things. It was war that started after the bombing of pearl harbor. Japan is a good people and I'm pleased we are now good friends.
If you are referring to WW 2, that started long before Pearl Harbor.
@@buckaroobanzai7063 The US's involvement did not begin until after Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was the catalyst for America and their defense against Imperial Japan.
Thank you for sharing these perspectives.
People who are saying, "The movie is called Oppenheimer, it's not about Hiroshima." It's kind of ignorant to say that.
It's like showing Shindler's List to Holocaust survivors and their families and saying, "Shindler's List was about Shindler not the Holocaust"
Without realizing or having the compassion to understand it's going to bring up a lot of emotions for them, that it's not going to bring up for you.
Just as if a movie about the terrorists of Sept 11th will bring up a lot of emotions for New Yorkers who were there. You can tell them all you want that it's not about Sept 11th, but they're still going to have an emotional reaction to it.
the movie is calle doppenhiemer because it focuessed on his experience during the war and bringing in a new age of weaponary and technology, it shows his reaction to how the victims were impacted in the war in a few scenes and his regret in doing so. but the movie is mainly focused on oppenheimer as a character, rather than the bomb itself.
its understandable for the Japanese to feel discomfort with regards to the subject of the atomic bomb and the effects it had on their country, but this response to the film Oppenheimer specifically feels really overblown - considering the film ultimately has really little to do with the bomb: rather, it uses the development of the bomb as a plot device to tell the story of Oppenheimer the individual. Japanese people shouldn't be surprised that it opts to omit detailed descriptions of the effects of the bomb.
Unfortunately what many people fail to realize is this isnt about Nuclear Weapons or the Nuclear Bomb, ots about the man himself. A biography of the father of Atomic Bombs. Make no mistake, I also fell into this trap. "Why they didnt show more of the Nuclear War at the end?" "How come they didnt show them dropping the bomb?" "Im surprised they still continued the film after the detonation of the bomb". I failed to realize its not about the bomb. Its about him. Sure, its themed around it cause hello, father of Atomics, but its not primairly focused on it.
I guess thats why this movie is so great. We all know Nuclear Weapons are bad, we all know people suffered, we all know that Nobody wins in Nuclear War, we know the capabilities of a Nuclear Bomb, and we all know the person responsible for creating it and dropping it, but we never knew the life of the person that created it.
Let alone... we never knew the toll it had on the man that created Death, Destroyer of Worlds...
I mean compared to what the Japanese did in WW2....
The magnanimity of Americans after WW2 was Truly Profound. Japan is what it is today because of that, Germany too.
It's true, the Japanese were absolutely brutal in WW2. Ask the Filipinos
Um, I'm Filipino, but was borned and raised in the US. Up until very recently, there was huge wariness of the Japanese that permeated the entire culture, so I'm the last person to defend them. That said, what are you actually comparing? Comparisons in terms of war are utterly pointless. And saying "The magnanimity of Americans" is weird and jingoistic, bordering on nationalist.
What you should be doing instead is understanding the gravity of each and every act by all participants, from the powers as a whole down to individual acts. "Comparing" these acts is insulting and reductive.
@@alejandroherrera5271 Not only Filipinos. The Indonesians suffered the most in Southeast and the Chinese in the East. i asked my classmate before from Korea why they beef w/ Japanese online is because they're not teaching ww2 history as extensive as the Germans. As a Vietnamese, i didnt even know we had the 2nd highest casualties in Southeast Asia just behind Indonesia.
@@earlyfriday7576 The beef between the Koreans and the Japanese goes even further back in the Feudal era of both countries. Not JUST WW2. Seems like they always held a bad blood towards each other way back.
(Examples are the Imjin War and "Seikanron")
Buts it's not America's view on the bomb but oppenheimers view on the bomb and Idk why they think oppenheimer saw dropping it as a positive. The movie showed he was against dropping it on the Japanese
Not a single “sorry about Pearl Harbor”
Ah so its revenge isnt it, then what make the difference between you and them, not a single "sorry about vietnam", "sorry about Iran", "sorry about our war crime in ww2"
Pearl Harbor was an attack on military not civilians. Must be hard for an American to understand knowing what you have done around the world including in Gaza right now
I love you.
@@duyat5679 Please re evaluate your argument and get back to me.
@DavidPerez77722 No shortages of historical Japanese crimes against humanity.
1:24 the movie is literally called “Oppenheimer” look man I get it but at the same time, it’s not about the bomb itself, it’s about the man who built it specifically.
My impression after visiting the memorial in Hiroshima (which I highly recommend - a day I will never forget), was that it was simply "pro-peace" and anti war, especially nuclear war. I did not get the impression that any effort was made to assign blame. The conversations I had with the tour guides (I took a National Geographic tour which was excellent), did point out something that differs from how we are taught, at least a bit. One element they felt that was under emphasized by Americans was that there was literally next to nothing left of Tokyo and other cities.They were all destroyed by bombing. So that when we say that dropping the bomb actually saved lives in the long run, they don't quite buy that. Another element was our belief that dropping the bomb was necessary to end the war. They feel that their surrender was already imminent. I'm not taking either side - I don't know. But it found it interesting. Finally, I do believe that they all know that they struck first, on Pearl Harbor. So it's not like they learn any twisted version of history or anything. One thing I did not feel in the slighest, even in Hiroshima, was any type of resentment toward Americans. After visiting the gut-wrenching memorial, an event outside was taking place in the peace park. Some young school girls and boys were going up one by one, and speaking forcefully (especially for Japanese people) against war. After just coming out of that museum, I completely lost my composure. A Japanese gentleman next to me smiled faintly, as if to say that he appreciated my tears. That evening, a great time was had by all eating okonomiyaki and going to a great little jazz club. I will never forget that wonderful day. I really love Japan.
Rmb, history is a foreign place. No use blaming or suffering for it. Best to learn, understand it and takeaway the experience. Considering the comment section, both sides of the war can do that
So you're telling me that second person say through this whole movie and got "oppenheimer was a saint," from it. Did she watch the same movie or did it show the part where he's regretting his entire life to the point of having PTSD while giving a speech where his creation was annihilating the crowd and him being tried for a war criminal?
There are over 200 characters in the movie and only ONE regrets his work. I can fully understand what the person means. You would see the movie with completely different eyes, if you were effected or have roots in Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
Wait when was he being tried for being a war criminal?
@chandelier6811 he wasn't in a trial but he was being interrogated by the government in that office near the end it was like 25 minutes of the movie where all his "friends/coworkers" were testifying against him and betrayed him to make him take the fall for creating a weapon of mass destruction even though the government told him to do it.
I read that the movie does not do well in Japan, debuting only at the 6th of the box office ranking in its first week.
I live in Osaka the crazy part of this whole Oppenheimer thing is I am not sure what movie it was it might have been another Nolan folm even seeing Tenet they had the teaser for Oppenheimer yesrs ago. When I saw that I was like surprised, but then a few years later and all the drama around it.
I grew up in California and am only 34 and have some roots in Kyoto and Osaka. It's crazy how all the old grudges are still prevalent here in Asia tho. I hward the last Toho Godzilla film didn't show in many Asian countries to because it portrays imoerial Japanese as Heroes.
There have been attrocities all over the world. I just wish we can finally get over it all nit forget it but grow from it and leave it in the past. Easier said than done right. I am a big Nolan fan tho and all his movies get big praise out here so thos whole saga has been interesting.
japan wont get over it, it would rather not acknowledge its war crimes.
People will never get along, that's the one thing you can learn from history that is irrefutable! Japan is actively denying and ignoring its past war crimes and their stance will not change. It's hopeless. If anything, hatred is brewing more and more, as is right nationalism in many countries!
If it makes things better, we got The Wind Rises, a movie about the A6M Zero fighter plane's lead designer. They made a film about the guy that made the tool that started the war. We made a film about the guy that made the tool that ended the war. It's all balanced.
did japanese goverment ask for forgiveness of thier atrocities committed all over asia?😂
It took 8 months to resolve the issue despite the controversial scene in Oppenheimer. Japan did ban this movie ever since.
The comparison and defensive reaction to the way a people feels when facing the collective trauma of another people is disgusting. These people should be heard and stories told and everyone including the United States should fulling address those feelings. It’s not a time to be like well they did this and they did that. I wonder when the people of all the countries learn that collective punishment isn’t a way to end hatred or war it really only breeds more allies to a cause and the circle of hate. These people have a right to their feelings and is an opportunity to learn from there pain and others in a whole.
My grandmother still lives with trauma from living through the Blitz, she survived when a bomb struck the house she was in. No child should ever experience that. I can't fathom the level of desolation Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced, and how those families picked up the pieces in the aftermath. When you are the only two nuclear bombed cities on the planet, it's understandable when movies that cover that event stir up complicated emotions, especially when the survivors and their children are still here.
I haven't seen the movie, but I feel it's purpose is to neither praise nor criticize the bomb, but rather to touch on the psychology of how far one would go to bring an end to war.
Meanwhil Unit 731 victims.😢😢😢
Radiation does far worse than what unit 731 did
I’d love to see a video of Japanese reacting to the movie “Men Behind the Sun”