In 1955, an American family takes in a female teenage survivor of Hiroshima. Of the two male children, the adolescent older one is hesitant at first to greet her especially having previously played war games with his treehouse friends with the Japanese, whom they referred to as Japs, as the enemy.
Did any of you know that Tamlyn Tomita who played a Japanese girl named Miyeko who survived the atomic bomb of Hiroshima is also Japanese in real life?
After viewing The Hiroshima Maiden, one walks away with the feeling that the movie was actually designed to be a documentary of people's reaction to a foreign idea, rather than a movie produced simply for entertainment value, because of the loose plot.Directed by Joan Darling, who also directed the popular television shows "M*A*S*H" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", the movie does an excellent job in making the viewer feel like they are at home with the main family.
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