Leonora posted:In 1975, my big brother sent a novel for me from NY called The Moonflower by Phillis A. Whitney. It's a suspenseful romantic thriller about life in Japan after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. It was so gripping that my entire high school class passed it to each other and read it, and by the time I got it back, it was falling apart. Through the years I always remembered the book and the story. Two months ago I ordered it from Amazon and read it again in 5 days, like I used to read in my teens.
One of the most emotional plays I have filmed, was a school plays called 'A Thousand Cranes'.
It was about a twelve year old Japanese girl who died from radiation, ten years after the bomb at Hiroshima.
About 100 Canadian students were taught songs in Japanese and the costumes were all authentic Japanese, even the slippers.
The student who played the dying Japanese girl was so real, that there were sniffing in the audience and I could not keep a dry eye through the camera lens.
I gave a copy to a Japanese lady in my aerobics class and she replied with similar emotions.
Five hundred paper cranes were sent from Japan for the play, by an ex student. A copy of the video was sent to him in Japan and shown on their TV station, with Japanese subtitles.
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