Childhood Days
A Tokyo boy finds himself in rural Japan during WWII evacuations. Among village children, he navigates new friendships and separation anxiety while B-29 bombers fly overhead. Bombing during World War…
Childhood Days
A Tokyo boy finds himself in rural Japan during WWII evacuations. Among village children, he navigates new friendships and separation anxiety while B-29 bombers fly overhead. Bombing during World War II resulted in whole urban populations fleeing to the countryside, and this created a meeting of urban and rural cultures. Shinji (a young boy evacuated from Tokyo) and his new schoolmates (who are villagers) don't exactly know what is going on in the war. They see the B-29 bombers and the glow of cities on fire, but the problems of being separated from one's mother and surviving among one's peers loom larger than international politics. —L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>
Childhood Days
Drama
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A Tokyo boy finds himself in rural Japan during WWII evacuations. Among village children, he navigates new friendships and separation anxiety while B-29 bombers fly overhead. Bombing during World War II resulted in whole urban populations fleeing to the countryside, and this created a meeting of urban and rural cultures.
Shinji (a young boy evacuated from Tokyo) and his new schoolmates (who are villagers) don't exactly know what is going on in the war. They see the B-29 bombers and the glow of cities on fire, but the problems of being separated from one's mother and surviving among one's peers loom larger than international politics. —L.H.
Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>.