The Lost Generation

Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein.

Runtime

42m

Director

Patrick Cousans

Cast

Stanford C. Allen, Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Shōhei Imamura

Cast

Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Kozaburo Yoshimura

Cast

Ayako Wakao, Jiro Tamiya, Keizō Kawasaki

On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Akihiro, a native Japanese filmmaker living in Paris, travels to Japan to interview survivors for a documentary commemorating the victims of the attack. Deeply moved by the interviews, he decides to take a break to wander through the city during which he meets Michiko, a merry...

Runtime

1h 23m

Director

Jean-Gabriel Périot

Cast

Hiroto Ogi, Akane Tatsukawa, Yuzu Horie

An extraordinary document from one of the Cold War's bitterest conflicts - between the Soviet Union and Communist China - this film spares no quarter in its indictment of Maoist evils and misrule.

Runtime

53m