Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive

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The lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor Kiyoshi Tanimoto, written in 1947 and recounting the atomic bomb attack, was found in a US archive and will be published this summer. The story will be adapted into a feature film with production starting in 2027.

Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film The memoir of a man who survived the horrors of Hiroshima is to be published for the first time this summer after its discovery in a US archive. The 230-page memoir was written almost 80 years ago by Kiyoshi Tanimoto, who witnessed the city’s destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. He will now be portrayed in a major feature film by Takehiro Hira, whose acclaimed roles include the detective in the Netflix Japanese-British drama Giri/Haji. Pre-production begins in November, ahead of the shoot in February 2027. Continue reading...