Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat
During WWII, the Japanese army developed experimental balloons able to cross the Pacific Ocean and reach the West Coast of North America in 3-6 days. Armed with explosives, they were given the code name fu-go, or fusen bakudan (“fire balloons,” or balloon bombs) in an attempt to instill a culture of fear like that caused by the far more deadly American firebombing of Japanese cities. The U.S. responded by enacting a censorship campaign, requesting newspapers avoid reports of fu-go landings or sightings. Living near the remains of a fu-go launch site in Fukushima Prefecture, Takeuchi mimics their flight take-off using a drone camera, and, traveling to North America, follows their arrival across the shoreline and rural landscapes, using a bat’s echolocation as narrative device to place fu-go and Fukushima as echos across history.
Year: 2020
Genre: History, Documentary
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Director: Kota Takeuchi
Cast:
Crew: Kota Takeuchi (Director)
Runtime: 32 minutes
Release: Apr 28, 2020
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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