Who Won the War (2020)

Who Won the War is a short documentary weaving interview, archive and animation to tell a remarkable story of survival. In 1945, at eight years of age, Takashi Tanemori witnessed the nuclear explosion over Hiroshima and became an extremely rare survivor within a one mile radius of the blast. It devastated his home town and killed the entirety of his family. In 1956, orphaned and partially blind, Takashi was invited by the American Government to the United States to "regain his health". As soon as he landed in California at age 18, Takashi realized that he had been identified as an eligible subject for experimentation undertaken by the ABCC (Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission) to understand the effects of intense radioactive energy on the human body. Takashi's story is different from many other Hiroshima survivors. It is the journey of an angry young man whose misfortunes begin right after the Hiroshima bombing. It's a story of revenge, and acceptance of the past.