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Gift of Fire

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2021 · 80 min History Drama
8.2 / 10 · TMDB

Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing research to save Japan, the researchers there wonder if they should promote the development of weapons as scientists. Research enthusiast Ishimura Osamu tries to experiment purely but is at the mercy of the time period. His brother, Hiroyuki, also has to face the truth of the war. Asakura Setsu wants only to talk about the future. A story based on historical facts about youth during the tragedy of war.

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Original Title 太陽の子
Year 2021
Country Japan, United States of America
Genre History, Drama
Director Hiroshi Kurosaki
Runtime 80 min.
Rating TMDB: 8.2/10 (4 votes)

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The film masterfully trades battlefield spectacle for the profound unease of the laboratory, where the real war is waged in the conscience. It's a slow-burn moral thriller, its tension derived from whispered debates and the terrifying weight of a single equation.

What lingers after is not imagery of destruction, but the haunting quiet of a choice made under duress. A poignant, necessary examination of intellectual complicity. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Hiroshi Kurosaki

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The hushed anxiety of dimly lit rooms, the cold precision of scientific instruments against a backdrop of gathering dread.

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