Paper City
8.3
“One night. 100,000 dead.”
Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continuing until morning, the raid left more than 100,000 people dead and a quarter of the city eradicated. Unlike their loved ones, Hiroshi Hoshino, Michiko Kiyooka and Minoru Tsukiyama managed to emerge from the bombings. Now in their twilight years, they wish for nothing more than recognition and reparations for those who, like them, had been indelibly harmed by the war – but the Japanese government and even their fellow citizens seem disinclined to acknowledge the past.
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Adrian Francis Director · Luca Cappelli Editor
United States release January 1, 2022 · Produced in Australia, Japan · Languages English, Japanese
Production
Feather Films
Production
Australia · Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Japanese
Release dates
Australia · August 16, 2021
Premiere · World Premiere at the 69th Melbourne International Film Festival, online
United States · January 1, 2022
Digital
United States
March 3, 2022 · Premiere · International Premiere at the 37th Santa Barbara International Film Festival
April 7, 2022 · Premiere · North Carolina Premiere at the 25th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
September 1, 2022 · Premiere · New England Premiere at the 18th Newburyport Documentary Film Festival
Germany
May 24, 2022 · Premiere · European Premiere at the 22nd Nippon Connection Japanese Film Festival
Romania
August 25, 2022 · Premiere · Eastern European Premiere at the 14th Rasnov Film & Histories Festival
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