''Hiroshima Witness'', also released as ''Voice of Hibakusha'', is a

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

featuring 100 interviews of people who survived the

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the onl ...

, also known as

hibakusha ''Hibakusha'' ( or ; ja, 被爆者 or ; "person affected by a bomb" or "person affected by exposure o radioactivity) is a word of Japanese origin generally designating the people affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at th ...

. ''Hiroshima Witness'' was produced in 1986 by the Hiroshima Peace Cultural Center and

NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestr ...

, the public broadcasting company of Japan.

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Recorded Testimony of A-bomb Survivors
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1986 films Japanese documentary films Documentary films about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Films set in Hiroshima Films shot in Hiroshima 1986 documentary films NHK 1980s Japanese films {{japan-hist-stub