{"id":62935,"date":"2024-03-29T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/29\/oppenheimer-finally-opens-japan-mixed-reviews"},"modified":"2024-03-29T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:00:11","slug":"there-wasnt-enough-about-the-horror-hiroshima-survivors-react-to-oppenheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62935","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There wasn\u2019t enough about the horror\u2019: Hiroshima survivors react to Oppenheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Film about \u2018father of the atomic bomb\u2019 finally opens in Japan after being delayed by outrage at \u2018Barbenheimer\u2019 memes<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to think of a more emotionally charged venue than Hatchoza for the first screening in Japan of the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer. The cinema in Hiroshima is located less than a kilometre from the hypocentre of the first atomic bombing in history \u2013 the devastating culmination of the American physicist\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>The film finally premiered in Japan on Friday, more than eight months after it opened in the US, to reviews that ranged from praise for its portrayal of J Robert Oppenheimer \u2013 the \u201cfather of the atomic bomb\u201d \u2013 to criticism that it omitted to show the human misery it caused in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2016\/apr\/18\/story-of-cities-hiroshima-japan-nuclear-destruction\">Hiroshima<\/a> and, days later, Nagasaki, in the final days of the Pacific war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/29\/oppenheimer-finally-opens-japan-mixed-reviews\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film about \u2018father of the atomic bomb\u2019 finally opens in Japan after being delayed by outrage at \u2018Barbenheimer\u2019 memesIt is hard to think of a more emotionally charged venue than Hatchoza for the first screening in Japan of the Academy Award-winning film&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3393,"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":[41,69,88,441,2955,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-film","category-japan","category-nuclear-weapons","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\/62935","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\/3393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62936,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62935\/revisions\/62936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}