{"id":60402,"date":"2023-12-07T12:40:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T03:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/07\/oppenheimer-japan-release-date-delay-barbenheimer-backlash"},"modified":"2023-12-07T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T03:40:58","slug":"oppenheimer-to-finally-be-released-in-japan-after-barbenheimer-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60402","title":{"rendered":"Oppenheimer to finally be released in Japan after \u2018Barbenheimer\u2019 backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet references conflating the two films drew anger in Japan, which was twice attacked by nuclear weapons during the second world war<\/p>\n<p>Audiences in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan <\/a>will finally get to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/oppenheimer\">Oppenheimer<\/a> \u2013 Christopher Nolan\u2019s hit biopic about the creator of the nuclear bomb \u2013 following criticism that it was marketed in a way that trivialised the atomic bombings of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2016\/apr\/18\/story-of-cities-hiroshima-japan-nuclear-destruction\">Hiroshima<\/a> and Nagasaki.<\/p>\n<p>The movie\u2019s distributor in Japan, Bitters End, said on Thursday that the film, which examines L. Robert Oppenheimer\u2019s moral quandary over his key role in the world\u2019s first nuclear attack on 6 August 1945, would be released in 2024.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/07\/oppenheimer-japan-release-date-delay-barbenheimer-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet references conflating the two films drew anger in Japan, which was twice attacked by nuclear weapons during the second world warAudiences in Japan will finally get to see Oppenheimer \u2013 Christopher Nolan\u2019s hit biopic about the creator of the nu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,69,88,2955,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-film","category-japan","category-oppenheimer","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60419,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60402\/revisions\/60419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}