The Mushroom Club (2005)

Directed by

Steven Okazaki

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

35 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary short looks at how the atomic bomb still affects survivors and the city of Hiroshima six decades later. It visits locals and places tied to the bombing's aftermath.

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What happens

The Mushroom Club is a 2005 documentary short subject, directed by Steven Okazaki. The short film is about the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima and its effects on the residents of that city sixty years later. In January 2006 it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. It lost to A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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