{"id":76791,"date":"2024-03-29T13:31:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T13:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/japan-finally-screens-oppenheimer-with-trigger-warnings\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T13:31:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T13:31:03","slug":"japan-finally-screens-oppenheimer-with-trigger-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/japan-finally-screens-oppenheimer-with-trigger-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan finally screens &#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217;, with trigger warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Best picture winner \u201cOppenheimer\u201d finally premiered in Japan on Friday, eight months after a controversial grassroots marketing push and concerns about how its nuclear theme would be received in the only country to suffer atomic bombing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The biggest winner at this month\u2019s Academy Awards, the film directed by Christopher Nolan about U.S. physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the race to develop the atomic bomb, has grossed nearly $1 billion globally.<\/p>\n<p>But Japan had been left out of worldwide screenings until now, despite being a major market for Hollywood. Nuclear blasts devastated its western city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the south at the close of World War Two, killing more than 200,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course this is an amazing film which deserves to win the Academy Awards,\u201d said Hiroshima resident Kawai, 37, who gave only his family name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the film also depicts the atomic bomb in a way that seems to praise it, and, as a person with roots in Hiroshima, I found it difficult to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A big fan of Nolan\u2019s films, Kawai, a public servant, went to see \u201cOppenheimer\u201d on opening day at a theatre that is just a kilometre from the city\u2019s Atomic Bomb Dome.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure this is a movie that Japanese people should make a special effort to watch,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Images on social media showed signs posted at the entrances to some Tokyo theatres, warning that the movie featured images of nuclear tests that could evoke the damage caused by the bombs.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"What do Hiroshima residents think of &#039;Oppenheimer?&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yVhG0C709dA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Another Hiroshima resident, Agemi Kanegae, had mixed feelings upon finally watching the movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe film was very worth watching,\u201d said the retired 65-year-old. \u201cBut I felt very uncomfortable with a few scenes, such as the trial of Oppenheimer in the United States at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film quickly became a global hit after opening in the United States last July. But many Japanese were offended by fan-created \u201cBarbenheimer\u201d online memes that linked it to<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarbie\u201d, a frothy blockbuster that opened around the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Pictures initially left Japan off its global release schedule for \u201cOppenheimer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually picked up by Bitters End, a Japanese distributor of independent films, it was given a release date for after the Oscar awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Reuters before the movie opened, atomic bomb survivor Teruko Yahata said she was eager to see it, in hopes that it would re-invigorate the debate over nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Yahata, now 86, said she felt some empathy for the physicist behind the bomb. That sentiment was echoed by Rishu Kanemoto, a 19-year-old student, who saw the film on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHiroshima and Nagasaki, where the atomic bombs were dropped, are certainly the victims,\u201d Kanemoto said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think even though the inventor is one of the perpetrators, he\u2019s also the victim caught up in the war,\u201d he added, referring to the ill-starred physicist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best picture winner \u201cOppenheimer\u201d finally premiered in Japan on Friday, eight months after a controversial grassroots marketing push and concerns about how its nuclear theme would be received in the only country to suffer atomic bombing. The biggest winner at this month\u2019s Academy Awards, the film directed by Christopher Nolan about U.S. physicist J. 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