I found this movie "GATE - Atomic Flame"
accidentally,
while searching news articles about a proposal for
Hiroshima city and Nagasaki city
to put in a joint bid for the 2020 Olympics.
I am not a member of the Global Nuclear
Disarmament Fund which made this movie,
I am not a Buddhist either.
But I was really impressed by this movie
and found
many people similarly impressed are organizing fund raising screenings.
So I thought
I would also like to screen this movie in Perth
so that many more people can have the opportunity
to see it.
After I watched this movie "GATE",
I thought about what I can do. I am from
Kitakyushu-city,
formerly KOKURA city which was one of the 4 biggest
industrial areas in Japan.
Even
now tons of iron ore and gas from Western Australia is imported.
Kokura was originally the second target of the
Atomic Bomb
but due to thick fog, ended up exploding in
Nagasaki city
on the 9th of August 1945.
If, it was a clear day above Kokura city,
my parents might have been dead and I wouldn't
have been here.
I am fine and I live in Perth now.
So I
would like to screen this movie to many more people
and hope that everyone will think about what they
can do.
This is the reason we have the movie tonight.
Perth is the 4th place screening both
in English and in Japanese,
outside of Japan, following New York, Hawaii,
South Africa.
And, thanks
to St. Davi's Church,
this is the first time to screen the movie in a
church.
Ohta Jushoku,
in the movie said,
"Determination
of one person can inspire the core of all humanity
to follow in the same path.
Use
this for "good" and you will succeed"
I
couldn't have this screening without great help by St. David's Church,
JET Alumni
Association, JA News, friends and you the audience tonight.
Thank
you all for your great help.
Thank
you for listening. Enjoy the movie.
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