[KineJapan] Oppenheimer in Japan

[Peter Larson]

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.

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.

One wonders if this is simply hand wringing on the part of well meaning (or
ignorant) Westerners, or possibly some clever marketing tactic.

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.

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.

On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 6:15 AM Rea Amit via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
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> Here is a NYT piece from today about Nolan’s Oscar-winning film in Japan:
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/world/asia/oppenheimer-opens-japan.html
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> While there is a lot to to say about the reception of the film in Japan, I
> am particularly intrigued by this:
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> "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.'”
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> 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?
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> Have these kinds of signs been used in other screenings in the past? Which
> theaters use them?
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> I would appreciate any information about this.
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> Thanks,
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> Rea
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