She was also the screenwriter of the 1959 French film Hiroshima mon amour, which was directed by Alain Resnais.

* Hiroshima mon amour, Gallimard, 1960 ( tr.

Hiroshima mon amour, 1961 )

He began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour ( 1959 ), L ' Année dernière à Marienbad ( Last Year in Marienbad ) ( 1961 ), and Muriel ( 1963 ), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past.

Resnais's first feature film was Hiroshima mon amour in 1959.

" He nevertheless acknowledged his debt to the New Wave because it created the conditions of production, and particularly the financial conditions, which allowed him to make a film like Hiroshima mon amour, his first feature film.

* Hiroshima mon amour ( 1959 )

The anonymous French actress ( Emmanuelle Riva ) who is the main character in the film Hiroshima mon amour by Alain Resnais is from Nevers, and the film features many flashbacks to her youth there during World War II.

Left Bank films include La Pointe Courte, Hiroshima mon amour, La jetée, Last Year at Marienbad, and Trans-Europ-Express.

* Hiroshima mon amour ( 1959 )

* Closest runners-up: The Gold Rush, Hiroshima mon Amour, Ikiru, Ivan the Terrible, Pierrot le Fou, and Vertigo ( 8 mentions apiece )

* Hiroshima mon amour

Hiroshima mon amour concerns a series of conversations ( or one enormous conversation ) over a 36-hour long period between a French actress ( Emmanuelle Riva ), referred to as She, and a Japanese architect ( Eiji Okada ), referred to as He.

Hiroshima mon amour earned an Oscar nomination for screenwriter Marguerite Duras as well as a special award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, where the film was excluded from the official selection because of its sensitive subject matter as well as to avoid upsetting the U. S. government.

Hiroshima mon amour has been described as " The Birth of a Nation of the French New Wave " by American critic Leonard Maltin.

Filmmaker Eric Rohmer said, " I think that in a few years, in ten, twenty, or thirty years, we will know whether Hiroshima mon amour was the most important film since the war, the first modern film of sound cinema ".

In his book on Resnais, James Monaco ends his chapter on Hiroshima mon amour by claiming that the film contains a reference to the classic 1942 film Casablanca:

When screening the film, Stuart Alson, who founded the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, said that the piece was " a parallel line of work with the French masterpiece " Hiroshima mon amour ".

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Hiroshima is a better city than it was before -- in the minds of the people I met was a strong determination for peace and understanding.

A key text is Jeff Nuttall's book Bomb Culture ( 1968 ), which traced this pervasive theme in popular culture back to Hiroshima.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima.

() is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

The MX-5, also known as Miata () in North America and Eunos Roadster in Japan, is a lightweight two-seater roadster, of front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, built by Mazda in Hiroshima, Japan.

The fission or " nuclear " chain-reaction, using fission-produced neutrons, is the source of energy for nuclear power plants and fission type nuclear bombs, such as those detonated by the United States in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II.

" Historians Hill and Yukiko have pointed out that attempts to minimize the importance of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is revisionist history.

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's " Free as a Bird " and " Real Love " with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean Lennon to create the song " Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue ", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city.

Outside, a vivid image is given: the family's silhouettes were permanently burned onto the side of the house ( as occurred at Hiroshima ) when they were vaporized by the nuclear explosion.

* Hiroshima, Japan is founded.

Typical nuclear weapon yields used during Cold War planning for EMP attacks were in the range of 1 to 10 megatons ( 4. 2 to 42 PJ ) This is roughly 50 to 500 times the sizes of the weapons the United States used in Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

He credits James Goodby ( of the Brookings Institution ) with tracing what he considers the earliest known English-language use soon after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ( although it is not quite verbatim ): a communique from a 15 November 1945, meeting of Harry Truman, Clement Attlee and Mackenzie King ( probably drafted by Vannevar Bush – or so Bush claimed in 1970 ) referred to " weapons adaptable to mass destruction ".

The first 29 cantos of Aniara had previously been published in Martinson's collection Cikada ( 1953 ), under the title Sången om Doris och Mima ( The Song of Doris and Mima ), relating the departure from Earth, the accidental near-collision with an asteroid ( incidentally named Hondo, another name for the main Japanese isle where Hiroshima is situated ) and ejection from the solar system, the first few years of increasing despair and distractions of the passengers, until news is received of the destruction of their home port ( and perhaps of Earth ).

Most of the nation's industry is located along the belt running from Tokyo along Honshu's southern coastal cities, including Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, and Hiroshima, part of the Taiheiyo Belt.

The Manhattan Project, as the American nuclear physics effort was called, culminated in the test explosion of a nuclear device at what is now called the Trinity Site on July 16, 1945, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just a few weeks later.

This is equivalent to 1, 400 times the combined power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used in WWII, or one quarter of the estimated yield of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.

On the nuclear attacks on Japan in WWII, he adhered to the view that " there was even less sign of a crack in Japan's determination to fight to the end with that of Nazi Germany, which is why nuclear arms were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to ensure a rapid Japanese surrender ", though believed there was an ancillary political, non-military reason for the bombings: " perhaps the thought that it would prevent America's ally the USSR from establishing a claim to a major part in Japan's defeat was not absent from the minds of the US government either.

While many world leaders have visited Hiroshima over the years, she is the highest-ever sitting U. S. official to pay her respects.

Okonomiyaki is mainly associated with Kansai or Hiroshima areas of Japan, but is widely available throughout the country.

Tokyo okonomiyaki is usually smaller than a Hiroshima or Kansai okonomiyaki.

* In Fuchū, Hiroshima, okonomiyaki is made of ground meat instead of bacon.