“Oppenheimer” finally opened in Japan on Friday and was met with mixed reactions, eight months after it hit theaters in the U.S.
The Christopher Nolan-directed film centers on the inner conflict American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer went through in creating the atomic bomb that was used in the destruction of the country’s cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Speaking to the Associated Press, Toshiyuki Mimaki, who survived the bombings when he was just a child, said he has been fascinated by the story of the man called “the father of the atomic bomb.”
“What were the Japanese thinking, carrying out the attack on Pearl Harbor, starting a war they could never hope to win,” Mimaki said in a phone interview with the AP.
“During the whole movie, I was waiting and waiting for the Hiroshima bombing scene to come on, but it never did,” he…
