Hiroshima Maiden (1988)

"Emotional scars are always the last to heal"Movie
Audience Score
70
Hiroshima Maiden
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You have to think about whether theyre really your friends Johnnys dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving him lately The other boys havent exactly tried to understand why Dad opened up his familys home to Miyeko a survivor of the Hiroshima Atomic bomb Although she is only in America a short time to have surgery on her badly scarred face and arm her visit reveals just how many ignorant and intolerant attitudes still exist 10 years after the wars end But Johnny who also resents Miyeko at first becomes one of her fiercest defenders after he makes the effort to look past her outward appearance Only then can the scars begin to heal
DirectorJoan Darling
WritersJ. Miyoko HensleySteven Hensley