Children of Hiroshima
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Children of Hiroshima is a 1952 Japanese film
Cinema of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...

 directed by Kaneto Shindō
Kaneto Shindo
, Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His best known films include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note.Shindō has often made films dealing with Hiroshima or the atomic bomb...

. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival
1953 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Jean Cocteau *Louis Chauvet *Titina De Filippo *Guy Desson *Philippe Erlanger *Renée Faure *Jacques-Pierre Frogerais *Abel Gance *André Lang...

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Cast

  • Nobuko Otowa
    Nobuko Otowa
    Nobuko Otowa was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She was married to film director Kaneto Shindō...

     - Takako Ishikawa
  • Osamu Takizawa
    Osamu Takizawa
    was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. Starting at the Tsukiji Little Theater, Takizawa participated in a number of theatrical troupes before forming Gekidan Mingei with Jūkichi Uno. His was praised for his performance in Death of a Salesman and also directed a version of The...

     - Iwakichi
  • Niwa Saito - Natsue Morikawa
  • Tsuneko Yamanaka
  • Shinya Ofuji
  • Takashi Itō
  • Chikako Hosokawa - Setsu, Takako's mother
  • Masao Shimizu - Toshiaki, Takako's father
  • Yuriko Hanabusa - Oine
  • Tanie Kitabayashi
    Tanie Kitabayashi
    was a Japanese actress.Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards...

     - Otoyo
  • Tsutomu Shimomoto - Natsue's husband
  • Eijirô Tono
    Eijirô Tono
    was a Japanese actor who took supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Yojimbo , as well as Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story and An Autumn Afternoon ....

  • Taiji Tonoyama - Owner of a ship
  • Jukichi Uno - Koji (scenes deleted)
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