Premiere Screening of
"Paper Lanterns"
A New Film by Barry Frechette
The true story of American POWs killed in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the Japanese man who has struggled to preserve their legacy.
Documentary Trailer
Thursday evening, Feb. 25, 6:00pm
Theater One, Revere Hotel
20 Stuart St., Boston, MA 02116
Parking available at the Revere Hotel and nearby garages.
Admission is free | Registration is required
Seating is limited. Please register early!
Event sponsored by
Connolly Partners
Element Productions
In 2015, as America and Japan celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, few remembered – if they ever knew – that twelve American prisoners-of-war were on the ground in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and were killed by the atomic bomb that destroyed the city that day.
One of the Americans was Normand Brissette, a teen-age Navy flier from Lowell, Massachusetts; another was Sgt. Ralph Neal from Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
This powerful new film tells their story.
And the story of Shigeaki Mori, himself a Hiroshima survivor, who never knew the American bomb victims but who has devoted his life to finding their families and dedicating monuments to their memory.
Please visit the Paper Lanterns Film Website
THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF BOSTON