Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat
Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat

Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat

0.0

0 hr 32 min

2020-04-28

0

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.

History

Documentary

Trailers

Characters

Similar Movies

Schindler's List

1993-12-15

Das Boot

1981-09-17

Pegasus Bridge

Enchanted

1993-06-30

The Last Emperor

1987-10-04

Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window

1983-01-01

Judgment at Nuremberg

1961-12-18

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957-10-11

Enemy at the Gates

2001-02-28

Saving Private Ryan

1998-07-24

Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre

2023-10-29

The Liberation of Auschwitz

1986-08-13

Gandhi

1982-12-01

Seven Years in Tibet

1997-09-12

Night and Fog

1956-05-22

Max Manus: Man of War

2008-12-18

Defiance

2008-12-31

The Gap

1937-09-01

A Company of Heroes

2013-04-02

Battle of the Bulge

1965-12-16