Hiroshima Out Of The Ashes

 

Released

1990

 

Credits

Director - Peter Werner

Editor - Robert Florio

Composer - Lucia Hwong

Production Design - William Cruse

Cinematographer - Neil Roach

Screenwriter - John McGreevey

 

Cast

Judd Nelson

Noriyuki Pat Morita

Max Von Sydow

Tamlyn Tomita

Stan Egi

Brady Tsurutani

Shizuko Hoshi

Ben Wright

Kim Miyori

Natsuko Ohama

Elizabeth Sung

Rodney Kageyama

Ping Wu

John Fujioka

Lisa Lu

Lily Froehlich

Danny Kamekona

Stephen James

Dale Ishimoto

Francois Chau

Nelson Mashita

Dian Tanaka

Benjamin Lum

Ken Narasaki

Lenny Imamura

Noriyuki Pat Morita

Sab Shimono

 

Plot

Recounts the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945 through the eyes of Japanese soldiers and citizens and American prisoners of war. Four years of war had barely touched Hiroshima ... then on a August morning in 1945 a single bomb transformed the world forever. Judd Nelson plays an American POW set free in the last place anyone on earth would want to be ... in Hiroshima on the day of the bomb.