Steven Okazaki

Filmmaker Steven Okazaki explores the evolution of the samurai film and Toshiro Mifune's legacy. 

Sixty five years ago today, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In a public statement justifying the use of the bomb that August, 1945, President Harry Truman said, "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished, in the first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians."

More than 140,000 people died in Hiroshima. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing 70,000 people.