Paper City

Name: Paper City
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-08-16
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Hiroshi Hoshino, Michiko Kiyooka, Minoru Tsukiyama

One night. 100,000 dead.

8.0 (1)2021-08-161h 20m

Documentary

Overview

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continuing until morning, the raid left more than 100,000 people dead and a quarter of the city eradicated. Unlike their loved ones, Hiroshi Hoshino, Michiko Kiyooka and Minoru Tsukiyama managed to emerge from the bombings. Now in their twilight years, they wish for nothing more than recognition and reparations for those who, like them, had been indelibly harmed by the war – but the Japanese government and even their fellow citizens seem disinclined to acknowledge the past.