On 6 August 1945, 20-year-old Akiko Takakura was working alongside a pal on the Financial institution of Hiroshima when her life was upended immediately. She was simply 300 m from the hypocentre of the atomic blast that america had unleashed on town that day. Gravely wounded, Takakura would by some means escape together with her life. Nevertheless, the lingering shadow of the carnage she witnessed that day would hang-out her for many years to return. By animations seemingly impressed by Japanese woodblock prints, the quick movie Obon (2018) from the Berlin-based filmmakers Anna Samo and André Hörmann captures Takakura’s recollections of the blast, and the everlasting mark they left on her, from the vantage of greater than 70 years later. With an unsparing sequence depicting the brutal violence of bombing, the work highlights how the assault unleashed horrors that Takakura couldn’t start to grasp, and the way it altered her relationship together with her strict father.
Administrators: Anna Samo, André Hörmann
Producers: André Hörmann, Christian Vizi, Günther Hörmann
Web site: Obon Film
