Picadon

Pikadon (Japanese: ピカドン Hepburn: Pikadon, "atomic bomb"[1]) is a 1979 Japanese short animated documentary war film animated,[2] produced and directed[3] by Renzo Kinoshita.[4]

Pikadon
A screenshot from the movie
Directed byRenzo Kinoshita
Produced byRenzo Kinoshita
Daizaburo Hayashi
Toshihiro Komori
Screenplay bySayoko Kinoshita
Music byReijiro Koroku
Production Nova
CinematographySatoru Isobe
Production
company
Studio Lotus
Release date
1979 (Annecy International Animated Film Festival)
Running time
8 minutes
CountryJapan

Plot

The movie starts with depiction a normal morning in Hiroshima.

Although there is no protagonist, most focus is centered around a child playing with a paper plane. At the same time he throws his paper plane through his balcony and falls, the atom bomb detonates is beginning, unleashing an unprecedented amount of destruction over people.

People burn to death, survivors’ skin melts. This scene ends with the view a small burned figure near the dome, presumably the child.

Last sequence of the work shows the child throwing his plane again, the paper plane flying instead and passing over modern-day Hiroshima as a shadow.

Legacy

This work is reported to be shown at Japanese schools as a reminder of the nuclear bombings. It is considered an obscure movie.

References
  1. jisho.org Japanese-English dictionary ピカドン. Consulted on December 12, 2019.
  2. "Pica don - Court-métrage (1979) - SensCritique". www.senscritique.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  3. "Pica-don (ピカドン, 1978)". nishikataeiga.blogspot.cl. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  4. "Pikadon (1979) - A short animated film showing the nuking of Hiroshima in terrifying detail. Still shown in Japanese schools today as a rememberance(sic) of the bombs being dropped. • r/ObscureMedia". reddit. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
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