KYODO
Two Japanese documentary films on the late Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, will be screened in London on Aug. 16 and invitations will be sent to the BBC, which aired a quiz show in 2010 that joked about him, the films' director said Thursday.
Hidetaka Inazuka, who directed both films, said he was motivated by the BBC incident to show the documentaries in Britain. The films cover Yamaguchi's antinuclear campaigning over a period of five years.
The double hibakusha died in January 2010 at the age of 93.
The films will be shown at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, along with footage of a 2007 interview in which Yamaguchi voices opposition to nuclear power.
Yamaguchi, who worked as an engineer at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' shipyard in Nagasaki, survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, while on a business trip and the bombing of Nagasaki three days later after returning home.
The BBC comedy quiz show in December 2010 described Yamaguchi as "the unluckiest man in the world," with guest comedians joking about him.