'Sadako Story Senbazuru' film screening at The Japan Foundation, 5A Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar IV > 2pm to 3:36pm on 2nd August 2014

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Time : 2:00 pm - 3:36 pm Add to Calendar 02-08-2014 14:00:00 02-08-2014 15:36:00 68 'Sadako Story Senbazuru' film screening Event Page : http://goo.gl/XCf2YX The Japan Foundation, 5A Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar IV, New Delhi - 110024 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : The Japan Foundation, 5A Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar IV, New Delhi - 110024

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Event Description : 'Sadako Story Senbazuru' film screening.

Synopsis :  
At the age, of two, Sadako Sasaki's home in Hiroshima was bombed. Miraculously she survived with barely a scratch and grew up to be a healthy, active girl with a love of sports until.

April, 1954, Hiroshima. Sadako has entered the 6th grade of elementary school. Her new teacher is strict but also very kind, so that Sadako enjoys her school life, especially sports. She is even crucial in helping her class win the championship in the autumn sports day running her favourite race. But toward the end of fall Sadako has caught a bad cold, which makes her lymph nodes painful. Even so, she remains the most cheerful girl in her class. Because she didn't seem to recover, she was eventually examined by a member of the A-Bomb Casualties Commission on the advice of a neighborhood doctor. It was discovered that it was not a cold she was suffering from, but leukaemia, caused by, the A-bomb that was dropped on her city when she was an infant. Suddenly, her life is changed. After bidding farewell to her classmates, Sadako enters the hospital. There, her spirits undaunted, she becomes a great favourite due to her cheerful and positive personality.

However,   she is concerned because her special treatment is expensive and is causing financial hardship for her family. And although she had hoped to enter
Junior high school, her continuing, fatiguing illness makes this impossible. She is moved to a new room for only two people where she meets Yukiko Amamiya, a girl two years senior to her and therefore appearing very grown up.

At first they do not get along, due to the differences in their character. But gradually they become as close as if they were sisters.

One day a package of hand folded cranes arrives from a girl in Nagoya. For, if one folds 1000 paper cranes, one can recover from one's illness. With the dedication typical of her, Sadako began to fold cranes from the paper wrappers of
the various medicines she was taking. But the more cranes she folded, the more her condition worsened. Yet, lying tranquilly in her hospital bed, Sadako patiently continues to fold the paper cranes….

Cast :
Sadako Sasaki : Tamami Hirose
Kenzou Sasaki  : Gin Maeda
Shigeko Sasaki : Chieko Baishoh
Kyohko Ohzeki   : Mako Ishino
Yukiko Amamiya : Mamiko Tayama
Doctor                  : Takahiro Tamura
Narrator              : Tomoe Hiiro

Director : Seijiroh Kohyama who also directed  'Song of the Spring Pony' and 'Hachiko.'

Setting : Hiroshima, early 1950s.

Year : 1989

Notes : Based on a true story.

Theme of the month: Summer – Praying for Peace

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