- Source: Picadon
Pikadon (Japanese: ピカドン Hepburn: Pikadon, "atomic bomb") is a 1978 Japanese short animated documentary war film anime, produced and directed by Renzo Kinoshita.
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 from his balcony and it falls, the atom bomb detonates, 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 genbaku dome, presumably the child who was playing with a paper plane earlier.
Last sequence of the work shows the boy 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 short film.
References
External links
Picadon at IMDb