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Hiroshima And Nagazaki's Effect On Japan

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The film Akira was produced at the year 1988, while the first part of the manga for Akira was released in Decemeber 1982 and the manga was serialised in the pages of Weekly Young Jump Magazine from 1982 to 1990. Katsuhiro Otomo inspiration for the film Akira comes from some of the western film, such as Bonnie and Clyde. Katsuhiro Otomo was given with a huge budget of $11 million to bring Akira to the screen. Katsuhiro Otomo then proceeds producing Akira with 70 animators. 327 colours were used in the film, which include 50 specially created colour and in total of 97 shades of red. With over 160,000 cels, Akira was produced with a smooth, realistic and convincing animation.
Akira had become the most influential genre so far as the international …show more content…

History depicts that Japan had gone through periods of rebuilding. By seeing into Japan’s culture, it seems like it is true in terms of Japan’s layered past and representation of new media. At the year 1945, Hiroshima and Nagazaki were levelled by the atomic bomb dropped by the United State, and this catastrophic event would have shape the nation over time. However, the Japanese has not simply forgotten about it, but the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagazaki seems to have given the Japanese a new meaning with the newer generation today. The word of atomic bomb to most of the people meant death and destruction, but at the same time it can also mean rebirth or hope for the future. Hence the concept of death and rebirth had become common theme in Japanese anime.
The concept of rebirth can be seen the film Akira. Akira took place after the World War III, Tokyo has been rebuilt into a new city called “Neo-Tokyo”, since at the start of the film Tokyo was destroyed by Akira. Neo-Tokyo is presented to the audience as a glowing city that filled neon lights and higher technology. Some people may see Akira as a tech noir genre film, according to what John Treat stated, “paradoxical genre that excoriates technology at the same time as its sophisticated special effects are implicit celebrations of technological achievement” (Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture

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