<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you all for sharing your experience and thoughts about this.</div><div><br></div><div>I ended up reaching out to Motoko Rich, and she was extremely quick to write:</div><div><br></div><div>"The distributor, Bitters End, provided the signs for theaters to choose
whether they wanted to post outside auditoriums. My colleague saw one in
Yokohama and others posted them on social media."</div><div><br></div><div>This implies that no warnings were used during the screenings themselves. It likely also indicates that many (if not most) theaters opted not to alert their potential patrons before screenings.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Rea<br></div><div><br></div><div><br>
</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 8:35 AM Jim Harper via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div> I didn't see any warnings at the screening I saw last week. The screening (in Hiroshima) wasn't particularly well-attended. For what it's worth, my wife (whose family were living in the city in 1945) wasn't offended by the film at all; she saw Oppenheimer as a brilliant but naive man who genuinely regretted what he'd unleashed.<br><br>Jim Harper.<br><br> </div> <div style="margin:10px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)"> <div> On Tuesday, 2 April 2024 at 23:50:23 GMT+9, Schermann Susanne via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote: </div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><div id="m_191540719203205686yiv7079151384"><div><p>Dear all,</p><p><br clear="none"></p><p>the distributor of Oppenheimer and the cinemas might be afraid of far right groups. When they think something it is harming Japan in some way (the bar often is quite low...), they might become quite unpleasant, to say the least.</p><p><br clear="none"></p><p>Just a personal idea, not more. Will see the film soon and look out for warnings and the like</p><p>Best</p><p>Susanne</p><p><br clear="none"></p><p><br clear="none"></p><p><br clear="none"></p><p><br clear="none"></p><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">----- Original Message -----</blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><div id="m_191540719203205686yiv7079151384yqt14075"><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><strong>From: </strong>"Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum" <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><strong>To: </strong>"Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum" <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><strong>Cc: </strong>"Peter Larson" <<a href="mailto:pslarson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">pslarson2@gmail.com</a>></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><strong>Date: </strong>2024/04/02 火 03:26</blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><strong>Subject: </strong>Re: [KineJapan] Oppenheimer in Japan</blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">This is just so strange to me. School trips go to Hiroshima or Nagasaki and there's no obvious indication that kids or adults are particularly traumatized by the experience in any way. </blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">Oppenheimer wouldn't seem to me to be very traumatic for anyone, anywhere, as it doesn't actually show any (to my recollection) of the damage, and even if it did, I would highly doubt that someone born in the 1960s or 70s would feel any more trauma than seeing any other type of film. </blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">One wonders if this is simply hand wringing on the part of well meaning (or ignorant) Westerners, or possibly some clever marketing tactic. </blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">I simply have never met a single person who seemed particularly traumatized about the bombings, even in Nagasaki where I was faculty for a while. </blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">Well, expect that one drunk guy in Osaka who started screaming about Hiroshima in a bar in 1996 while throwing money at me, but that's a different story. </blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 6:15 AM Rea Amit via KineJapan <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:</blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">Hello everyone, </blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">Here is a NYT piece from today about Nolan’s Oscar-winning film in Japan:</blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/world/asia/oppenheimer-opens-japan.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/world/asia/oppenheimer-opens-japan.html</a></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">While there is a lot to to say about the reception of the film in Japan, I am particularly intrigued by this: </blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">"Mindful of domestic sensitivities, some theaters in Japan are carrying trigger warnings, with signs cautioning audiences about scenes 'that may remind viewers of the damage caused by the atomic bombings.'”</blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">I asked people I know in Japan who have seen the film, but they were not warned. Does anyone know what these “trigger warnings” might be? </blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"> </blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">Have these kinds of signs been used in other screenings in the past? Which theaters use them? </blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">I would appreciate any information about this.</blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px"><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px">Thanks,</blockquote><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none none none 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