Pictures of social media showed evidence posted at the doors to some Tokyo theaters that admonished that the film featured images of nuclear assessments that might elicit the harm the bombs might have caused.
Another Hiroshima citizen, Agemi Kanegae, had mixed emotions upon suddenly watching the movie.
” The movie was really worth watching”, said the resigned 65- year- aged. However, I did not like some of the final images, such as the Oppenheimer test in the United States.
After debuting in the United States in July, the movie rapidly gained a worldwide following. However, many Chinese people were offended by fan-made” Barbenheimer” online memes that connected it to Barbie, a foamy hit that debuted around the same period.
Universal Pictures first foresaw Japan being off its worldwide launch schedule for Oppenheimer. It was eventually picked up by Bitters End, a Chinese seller of independent movies, and scheduled for release after the Oscars ceremony.
Teruko Yahata, a veteran of the atomic bomb, told Reuters before the movie was due to premiered in hopes that it would rekindle the discussion over nuclear weapons.
Yahata, then 86, said she felt some compassion for the mathematician behind the weapon. That attitude was echoed by Rishu Kanemoto, a 19- yr- older student, who saw the picture on Friday.
” Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the nuclear bombs were dropped, are certainly the patients”, Kanemoto said.
” But I think even though the engineer is one of the offenders, he’s even the sufferer caught up in the war”, he added, referring to the unwell- appeared scientist.