Digital Script ArchivesDetail
Ishibumi
- No.
- ST-00115
- Year
- 1969
- Broadcated
/Created by - 日本テレビ系/広島テレビ
- Scriptwriter
- Matsuyama Zenzo
- Format
- one-off drama
- Awards
- ACA National Arts Festival Encouragement Award
- Overview
- Won the 24th ACA National Arts Festival Excellence Award. Produced by Hiroshima Television. It is a documentary-drama about the 322 first year students of Hiroshima Prefectural Hiroshima Daini Junior High School (former name) who were all killed by the atomic bomb during the wartime mobilization on August 6, 1945. On August 6, the first and second year students of Hiroshima Daini Junior High School were mobilized to work in central Hiroshima City. Their task was to dismantle buildings on the bank of Honkawa River in Nakajimashincho town in order to minimize fire damage due to air raids. Later, the atomic bomb exploded above the heads of the teachers and students... Ishibumi was shot in a studio decorated with pictures of the students who died in the bombing. In the program, Haruko Sugimura, an actress in roughly the same age range as the students’ mothers, calmly reads out letters written by the victims’ families. The letters describe the actual things the students did and said just before they killed. During the narration by Sugimura, the atomic bomb’s flash, smoke, and other visual effects were produced in the studio. In the final scene, the students’ pictures were made to fall down. This shocking device garnered attention to the program. A remake titled Sengo 70 Nen Tokubetsu Bangumi Ishibumi—Wasurenai. Anatatachi no Kotowo—was aired in 2015. It was written and directed by film director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
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