
Paper City
One night. 100,000 dead.
Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continuing until morning, the raid left more than 100,000 people dead and a quarter of the city eradicated. Unlike their loved ones, Hiroshi Hoshino, Michiko Kiyooka and Minoru Tsukiyama managed to emerge from the bombings. Now in their twilight years, they wish for nothing more than recognition and reparations for those who, like them, had been indelibly harmed by the war – but the Japanese government and even their fellow citizens seem disinclined to acknowledge the past.
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- Released
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- Language
- English
- japan
- war crimes
- peace
- world war ii
- memory
- tokyo, japan
- social activism
- documentary filmmaking
- dark history
- old age
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Australia, Japan
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Digital / OTT1 Jan 2022
- PremiereInternational Premiere at the 37th Santa Barbara International Film Festival3 Mar 2022
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere at the 25th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival7 Apr 2022
- PremiereNew England Premiere at the 18th Newburyport Documentary Film Festival1 Sept 2022
AustraliaAU
- PremiereWorld Premiere at the 69th Melbourne International Film Festival, online16 Aug 2021
GermanyDE
- PremiereEuropean Premiere at the 22nd Nippon Connection Japanese Film Festival24 May 2022
RomaniaRO
- PremiereEastern European Premiere at the 14th Rasnov Film & Histories Festival25 Aug 2022
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Paper City was released on 16 August 2021.
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