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Twice: The Extraordinary Life of Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Twice: The Extraordinary Life of Tsutomu Yamaguchi

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 5, 2010

Runtime

0h 53m

Genres

Documentary, War

User Score

77%

Original Title

Nijuu hibaku, Kataribe Yamaguchi Tsutomu no yuigon

Production Companies

NHK, NHK Enterprises

Director

Hidetaka Inazuka

Description

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is a hibakusha. A survivor of both atomic bomb blasts in 1945. First at Hiroshima, then again at Nagasaki. Now nearing 90, Yamaguchi finally speaks out. Breaking taboos of shame and sorrow, he responds to a call to fight for a world without nuclear weapons by telling his story, so that no one else will ever have to tell one like it again. Twice reconstructs Yamaguchi’s experiences in 1945 Japan, interviews him on the after-effects of exposure and documents the last five years of the late-blooming activist’s life.