A thrilling documentary with testimonies of the small numbers of survivors from the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans in ´45 in which 140,000 victims perished in Hiroshima and 70,000 in Nagasaki. All survivors are now at the last days of their lives, only now have received a sort of indemnification from the Japanese government. As in other societies, those symbol of defeat, are consciously put aside, left behind, not wanting to be remembered. Those talking in this doc were then young child and they still today carry the physical and psychological wounds caused not only by the bomb but also by their own coreligionists, Japanese that don’t know their suffering, don’t remember what happened and definitely could place themselves into the same situation by not acknowledging what hit their country then. As you all know, the war came to an end as consequence of  plutonium 21 kilotons ¨Fat man¨ and uranium 15 kilotons ¨Little boy¨. The two bombs were carried out by 3 bombers, the Enola Gay and two others, one filled with observers in charged of filming the whole thing and another filled with scientists to measure the explosion. Today humans have risen our destructive capacity to an astonishing 400,000 Hiroshima´s bombs. Well known are Einsteins words about the 4rth World War where weapons will be rocks.

Nanking was the capital of the Republic of China in 1937 at the time that the Imperial army of Japan arrived, during one of the Sino-Japanese wars. The Japanese take the city and deliberately kill tens of thousands of prisoners, some soldiers some others not. Women will be systematically raped. This is a black and white film, created with all detail to resemble the period, actors are obviously, dealing with a Chinese movie, anonymous to westerners. This picture describes how the Japanese behaved during these wars with the Chinese, for which, by the way, I think there are still officially open cases at the UN reopened for the victims, those women raped then. Score: 5.7