Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Eight years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima at exactly 8.15am on August 6, 1945, Australia's first contribution to the ...

An actress arrives in Hiroshima to star in a film about peace, where she meets a Japanese man and they quickly become lovers and confidants. She narrates to the story of her teenage years in Nevers ...

As one of the few Japanese students in his high school in New Hampshire back in 2004, Yoshitaka Yamamoto felt a social pressure to fit in. So during a history class debate, he took the position that ...

Alain Resnais' film Hiroshima Mon Amour tackles the unspeakable trauma of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, something Western cinema has largely ignored. Resnais fuses fiction and documentary ...

The unnamed actress, a melancholy wren of a woman played by Emmanuelle Riva, has come to the notorious Japanese island, 12 years after the war, to make “a film about peace.” This is what she says to ...

Is “Hiroshima Mon Amour” the first modern movie? The debut feature by Alain Resnais, who died this past March at 91, turns 55 this year, and its influence is subterranean and vast. One of the first ...

Two adaptations of works by the writer Marguerite Duras are playing as one-woman shows in Paris. By Laura Cappelle PARIS — When the film “Hiroshima Mon Amour” was released 60 years ago, the French ...

“I shall never forget my first sight of what was the result of the atomic bomb,” Pedro Arrupe, S.J., wrote, years later. At the time he was the superior general of the Society of Jesus, a role he held ...