{"id":83275,"date":"2025-11-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=83275"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:02:44","slug":"a-journey-to-the-past-through-hope-discover-the-details-of-nagasaki-in-the-shadow-of-the-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/11\/23\/a-journey-to-the-past-through-hope-discover-the-details-of-nagasaki-in-the-shadow-of-the-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"A journey to the past through hope: discover the details of \u201cNagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On August 9, 1945, around 11 a.m., an atomic bomb exploded over the Urakami Valley, one of the neighborhoods with the highest Christian population in Japan: thus unfolded the tragedy of Nagasaki.<br><br>Between 70,000 and 80,000 people died immediately, but some survived. Many did so thanks to the help of volunteers, such as those from the Red Cross at the time.<br><br>This is the premise of the new film by a Japanese director, called <em>Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash<\/em>.<br><br><br><strong>JUMPEI MATSUMOTO<\/strong><br>Director of the film <em>Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash<\/em><br><em>I am from Nagasaki. I am a third-generation survivor of the atomic bomb. Growing up in Nagasaki as a Catholic, I was always taught the teachings of Jesus\u2019 love. And so, together with these teachings of Jesus\u2019 love, I grew up in the reality of a city marked by the atomic bomb. Caught between that reality and the ideal, I always felt that someday I wanted to make a film about this atomic bomb.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film collects the testimonies of three young nurses who witnessed firsthand the horror and devastation brought by the bomb\u2019s explosion.<br><br><br><strong>JUMPEI MATSUMOTO<\/strong><br>Director of the film <em>Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash<\/em><br><em>I read several sources to fully understand the impact of the atomic bomb at that time. Within that, the challenge for me as a filmmaker was to weave the drama as faithfully as possible to what actually happened. Therefore, there are no scenes that I imagined or created arbitrarily. All are based on documented accounts.<br><br><br><br><\/em>The Vatican Film Library was chosen as the venue to present a film that helps keep alive the memory of what happened in Nagasaki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A movie that invites reflection on the use of nuclear weapons, a concern consistently raised by the Vatican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Trans. CRT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 9, 1945, around 11 a.m., an atomic bomb exploded over the Urakami Valley, one of the neighborhoods with the highest Christian population in Japan: thus unfolded the tragedy of Nagasaki. Between 70,000 and 80,000 people died immediately, but some survived. Many did so thanks to the help of volunteers, such as those from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":83271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q9fieZOtPfU","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bfilmnagasakieng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bfilmnagasakiint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83278,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83275\/revisions\/83278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}