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A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.


Working as a tram supervisor always filled a hard-working young girl in Hiroshima with joy during the Second World War … but times are changing. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima devastated the city, and nothing is as it once was. How will their lives change after this catastrophe?

Yuko Miyamura
The First Tram Runs to Hiroshima is a animation, drama, history film released in 1993. Directed by Toshio Hirata, it stars Yuko Miyamura. Working as a tram supervisor always filled a hard-working young girl in Hiroshima with joy during the Second World War … but times are changing. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima devastated the city, and nothing is as it once was. How will their lives change after this catastrophe?
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