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The Day the Sun Fell

7.220151h 19mMovieHistoryDocumentary

Tracing the past of her deceased grandfather who worked as a young doctor in the Red Cross hospital of HirSwiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches…

DirectorAya Domenig
ProducersTanja Meding·Mirjam von Arx

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Cast · Directed by Aya Domenig

AD
Aya Domenig
Self
KD
Kiyomi Doi
Self - Aya's grandmother
SD
Shigeru Doi
Self - Aya's grandfather, Red Cross doctor (archive footage)
SM
Sumiko Miyahara
Self - Hiroshima atomic bomb aftermath nurse
CU
Chizuko Uchida
Self
SHShuntaro Hida
Shuntaro Hida
Self - Former Imperial Japanese Army doctor
HK
Hitoshi Kai
Self - Chairman of Junod Association
MN
Mai Nakata
Self - Fukushima refugee
SN
Shoei Nakata
Self - Mai Nakata's son, Fukushima refugee
SA
Shinzo Abe
Self - Prime minister of Japan

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