Jos de Putter- Mid-length docs
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Year: 1995
Format: 16 mm
Runtime: 55 min
Fifty years after the atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ‘Nagasaki Stories’ seeks the personal and reveals the private recollections of some of Nagasaki’s inhabitants, who survived the bomb.
We meet Mr. Kyushiro Kusakabe, a former reporter who lost his mother and wife, and who now, 50 years after the catastrophe, is travelling from Tokyo to Nagasaki, together with his sister-in-law. They speak about their memories of everyday life in prewar multi-cultural Nagasaki. By the time the two travellers reach Nagasaki we have come to know a municipal civil servant who tried unsuccesfully to map the area that had been ruined during the war, a former kamikaze pilot awaiting his death in a hospital, two sisters whose father had been a kimono tailor who went bankrupt when the war changed clothing habits, and a photographer who started his career the moment the A-bomb destroyed his hometown.
Their stories are balanced by home movie fragments which never literally illustrate yet do comment on, and sometimes poetically colour, the memories they speak of.
Written & directed by Jos de Putter
Director of photography: Paul Cohen
Edited by Puck Goossen
Sound recording: Mark van der Willigen
Original music by Vincent van Warmerdam
Sound design: Jack Bol
Research Japan: Jacintha Hin
Production Japan: Misako Furukawa
Produced by Jos de Putter
Copyright 1995 Dieptescherpte / IKON
