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'Oppenheimer' shown in Japan amidst tense reactions in Hiroshima

Japan had not screened "Oppenheimer" until now due to the country's sensitivity to nuclear themes, stemming from the devastation caused by atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. "This is an amazing film that deserves to win the Academy Awards, but the film also depicts the atomic bomb in a way that seems to praise it, and, as a person with roots in Hiroshima, I found it difficult to watch,” said a Hiroshima resident.