Natsufuku no shōjotachi: Hiroshima Shōwa nijūnen hachigatsu muika (1988)

Overview : In 1945, the second- and third-year students of a Hiroshima girls' school are taken away to work in war factories. The remaining 220 girls of the first year try to make the best of their new-found status as the only teenagers in an almost deserted town, even amid the deprivations of wartime. On the seventh of August, an American bomber changes their lives forever. Broadcast on the 43rd anniversary of Hiroshima in memory of "the girls who lost their lives to the atom bomb." (Source: Anime Encyclopedia)

Release Date : August 7, 1988

Runtime : 50m

Genre : History, Animation, Documentary, TV Movie, War  

Companies : Madhouse

Countries : Japan

Keywords : world war ii, hiroshima, japan, tragedy, historical, schoolgirl, angst, mina