Seventy-five percent of Japan’s population was born after 1945 and when questioned on the streets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many have no idea of the significance of August 6 and 9, 1945. Be prepared for a visceral reaction to this extraordinary, heartbreaking examination of the aftermath of unleashing the atomic bomb. Sixty years after the U.S. attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Academy-Award winning director, Steven Okazaki interviews fourteen survivors and four American men who were directly involved with the bombing missions. The Japanese survivors tell their stories with grace. The accounts are illustrated with photographs, survivor paintings, and drawings, and amazing historical footage of the aftereffects of the bomb. It is estimated that more than 200,000 people, almost all civilians, died instantly, while many thousands more perished due to radiation illnesses in the years that followed. Those who survived are called hibakusha—people exposed to the bomb—and there are more than 200,000 still living today. With the constant threat of nuclear weapons in our headlines, we cannot afford to forget what happened on two days in 1945. “All this pain we carry in our hearts and in our bodies—it must end with us.”  DRP