Three days after the bomb dropped, teenage girls drove the first train through hell itself.
Only 3 days after A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a streetcar started running through the town burned to the ground. The drivers were teenage girls working for the train company in place of men. The drama is based on a true story of people who strived for the restoration.
Acting
Kuroshima's restrained grief never once asks for your sympathy.
Production
Ash-covered sets feel lived-in, not spectacle.
Direction
Kishi refuses the bomb's glamour, focuses on what comes after.
Director
Yoshiyuki Kishi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The actual Hiroshima Electric Railway restored service on August 9, 1945—just three days after the bombing, using teenage girls and wounded employees.
The film belongs to a quiet wave of Japanese cinema re-examining the bomb's aftermath through women's labor, not military spectacle—see also 'Black Rain' and 'Hiroshima Mon Amour's inverse gaze.
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