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The curiously quiet reaction to Oppenheimer in Japan

6 April 2024

5:00 PM

6 April 2024

5:00 PM

Finally, eight months after its US premiere and a month after it triumphed at the Oscars, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has opened here in Japan. The film had been mysteriously delayed and there were rumours it would never be screened in the only country to suffer the consequences of a nuclear bomb.

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