A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war. A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. She recalls her lover during the war, a 23 year-old German soldier who later died. Despite the time they spend together, her attachment appears minimal and they go forward into the future. A beautiful cinematic poem on love, history and forgetting.
Keywords
- Asia
- Escape to the 50's
- Love Story
- Movies you need to watch once in your life
- Nouvelle Vague
- Our Greatest Love Stories
- Remembering WW2
- Romance
- Tim Mielants’ favorite films
- relationship
- war
Actors
- Emmanuelle Riva
- Stella Dassas
- Bernard Fresson
- Eiji Okada
- Pierre Barbaud
Director
- Alain Resnais
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. She recalls her lover during the war, a 23 year-old German soldier who later died. Despite the time they spend together, her attachment appears minimal and they go forward into the future.
A beautiful cinematic poem on love, history and forgetting.
Cast & Crew
Director
Alain Resnais
Cast
Emmanuelle Riva
Cast
Stella Dassas
Cast
Bernard Fresson
Cast
Eiji Okada
Cast
Pierre Barbaud