“HIBAKUSHA” is an animated documentary/drama featuring Kaz Suyeishi, an 84 year old woman, who recalls her most vivid and horrific experiences as an 18 year old Japanese American student during the morning of August 6, 1945 when the atomic bomb dropped on her hometown.

Steve Nguyen (Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift, Jarhead) & Daisuke Suzuki (The Hills, American Dad!) are attached to direct the film and acclaimed animator & music video director Choz Belen (Far East Movement’s “I Party” and Deep Foundation’s “Sleep”) is set to animate the film. Principal photography is expected to commence in February 2011 in the Los Angeles and New York area, and post production/illustrations will commence shortly afterwards.

This film is inspired to bring awareness to the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings in hopes that nothing like this will ever happen again and over time, show tremendous forgiveness after these terrible incidents occurred. This project will commemorate the 66th Anniversary of the bombings and is dedicated to the Association of Hiroshima & Nagasaki A-bomb Survivors.

Learn more about the project here. By giving to this project, you’ll get great gifts including production credits, t-hirts, buttons and more depending on your level of support. See more on Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivors

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