The Day the Sun Fell

The Day the Sun Fell (2015)

HistoryDocumentary

Tracing the past of her deceased grandfather who worked as a young doctor in the Red Cross hospital of HirSwiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by tracing the lives of a doctor and of former nurses who once shared the same experience. While gathering the memories and present views of these last survivors, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima strikes and history seems to repeat itself.oshima after the atomic bomb was dropped over the city, the filmmaker encounters doctors and nurses who went through similar experiences to his at the time. Right up until his death in 1991, her grandfather was never able to speak about his experiences, but the formidable stories and openness of her protagonists bring her closer to his past.

Director: Aya Domenig

Casts

	Aya Domenig as Self
	Kiyomi Doi as Self - Aya's grandmother
	Shigeru Doi as Self - Aya's grandfather, Red Cross doctor (archive footage)
	Sumiko Miyahara as Self - Hiroshima atomic bomb aftermath nurse
	Chizuko Uchida as Self
	Shuntaro Hida as Self - Former Imperial Japanese Army doctor
	Hitoshi Kai as Self - Chairman of Junod Association
	Mai Nakata as Self - Fukushima refugee
	Shoei Nakata as Self - Mai Nakata's son, Fukushima refugee
	Shinzo Abe as Self - Prime minister of Japan

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