Free film nights move to Thursdays this fall, still at MCC Ka Lama 103, and we’re starting off the season with the full-length Japanese anime film, “Barefoot Gen.” Based on the manga novel by Keiji Nakazawa, it tells the story of a family affected by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of WW II. The showing is FREE to the public on Thursday, Sept. 11, in MCC Ka Lama 103 at 7:00 pm. This film was lent to us by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is an education about the ordinary people of Hiroshima, caught between the harsh military regime of wartime Japan and the American bombing of Japanese cities.
Warning: This film is appropriate and very interesting for teens and adults, but for very young children there are some graphic scenes of the effect of the atomic blast that might be disturbing, even though it is in cartoon form.
The co-sponsors are the MCC Peace Club and Maui Peace Action. For more information, leave a message at 573-3255.
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Maui Peace Action is on the web at www.mauipeace.org, and our voice mail is
808 573-3255.
Mission Statement: Maui Peace Action is a diverse group of citizens
committed to ho'omaluhia (making peace). We encourage disarmament through
peaceful international cooperation, protest pre-emptive aggression, promote
nonviolent solutions to world conflict, and educate for social justice.
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