others have felt the film focuses overly on Oppenheimer rather than the victims. Former Hiroshima Mayor Takashi Hiraoka, who attended an earlier media screening of "Oppenheimer," criticized the ...

HIROSHIMA—The film “Oppenheimer,” a biopic about the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb,” opened in the United States to rave reviews in July but hasn’t been shown in Japan ...

Nuclear blasts devastated its western city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the south at the close of World War Two, killing more than 200,000. "Of course this is an amazing film which deserves to win ...

Former Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism on Monday for his "richly ...

‘Glorifies atomic bomb’: Oppenheimer set for tepid reception in Japan after row “Of course this is an amazing film which deserves to win the Academy Awards,” said Hiroshima resident ...

The story about the creator of the nuclear bomb was always going to be a difficult watch in Hiroshima - the city ... to see what they thought of the film, which has won seven Oscars and garnered ...

Hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens were killed. With the film now having been released in the country, the mayor of Hiroshima has been critical, saying (via Associated Press): “From ...

and Vanessa Redgrave (actor), the French film Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) has the mark of another two women: Marguerite Duras as the writer and Emmanuelle Riva as the main female lead. Hiroshima Mon ...

Okuno, who watched the film in Tokyo, lamented that it did not reflect the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. “It is scary to have this ...

The film's initial marketing campaign had drawn criticism in Japan, the only country to have suffered the effects of the atomic bomb. Former Hiroshima mayor Takashi Hiraoka was critical of the ...

HIROSHIMA–Increased attention from the Group of Seven summit and the release of the blockbuster film "Oppenheimer" helped fuel record numbers visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum here in ...

Oppenheimer continues to break records around the world, and now the film has become Christopher Nolan’s biggest Box Office hit overseas. READ MORE: ‘Oppenheimer’ review: Christopher Nolan ...