Picadon

Pikadon
A screenshot from the film.
ピカドン
Directed by	Renzo Kinoshita
Screenplay by	Sayoko Kinoshita
Produced by	Renzo Kinoshita Daizaburo Hayashi Toshihiro Komori
Cinematography	Satoru Isobe
Music by	Reijiro Koroku Production Nova
Production company	Studio Lotus
Release date	1978 (1978) (Annecy International Animated Film Festival)
Running time	8 minutes
Country	Japan

Pikadon (Japanese: ピカドン Hepburn: Pikadon, "atomic bomb"[1]) is a 1978 Japanese short animated documentary war film anime,[2] produced and directed[3] by Renzo Kinoshita.[4]

Plot

The movie starts with depiction a normal morning in Hiroshima.

Although there is no protagonist, most focus is centered around a child playing with a paper plane. At the same time he throws his paper plane from his balcony and it falls, the atom bomb detonates, unleashing an unprecedented amount of destruction over people.

People burn to death, survivors’ skin melts. This scene ends with the view a small burned figure near the genbaku dome, presumably the child who was playing with a paper plane earlier.

Last sequence of the work shows the boy throwing his plane again, the paper plane flying instead and passing over modern-day Hiroshima as a shadow.

Legacy

This work is reported^[by whom?] to be shown at Japanese schools as a reminder of the nuclear bombings. It is considered an obscure short film.^[by whom?]

References

1. jisho.org Japanese-English dictionary ピカドン. Consulted on December 12, 2019.
2. "Pica don - Court-métrage (1979) - SensCritique". www.senscritique.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-03-10.
3. "Pica-don (ピカドン, 1978)". nishikataeiga.blogspot.cl. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
4. "Pikadon (1979) - A short animated film showing the nuking of Hiroshima in terrifying detail. Still shown in Japanese schools today as a rememberance(sic) of the bombs being dropped. • r/ObscureMedia". reddit. 26 October 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-10.

External links

• Picadon at IMDb