MOVIE · 1959

Hiroshima Mon Amour

DramaRomance92 min

In postwar Hiroshima, a French actress and a Japanese architect begin an affair that opens into a long, intimate exchange about memory, loss, and what the atomic bombing left behind. Emmanuelle Riva is the actress, while Eiji Okada’s architect becomes her listener and counterpart as their brief connection turns toward earlier romances, wartime trauma, and the uneasy distance between personal memory and public disaster. Their conversations move through recollection as much as the present moment, with fragments of the past surfacing alongside images of a city still marked by World War II.