| Pikadon | |
| Native Name: | ピカドン |
| Director: | Renzo Kinoshita |
| Producer: | Renzo Kinoshita Daizaburo Hayashi Toshihiro Komori |
| Screenplay: | Sayoko Kinoshita |
| Music: | Reijiro Koroku Production Nova |
| Cinematography: | Satoru Isobe |
| Studio: | Studio Lotus |
| Runtime: | 8 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
Pikadon (Japanese: ピカドン Hepburn: Pikadon, "atomic bomb"[1]) is a 1978 Japanese short animated documentary war film anime,[2] produced and directed[3] by Renzo Kinoshita.[4]
The movie starts with depiction a normal morning in Hiroshima.
Although there is no protagonist, most focus is centered around a child playing with a paper plane. At the same time he throws his paper plane from his balcony and it falls, the atom bomb detonates, unleashing an unprecedented amount of destruction over people.
People burn to death, survivors’ skin melts. This scene ends with the view a small burned figure near the dome, presumably the child.
Last sequence of the work shows the child throwing his plane again, the paper plane flying instead and passing over modern-day Hiroshima as a shadow.
This work is reported to be shown at Japanese schools as a reminder of the nuclear bombings. It is considered an obscure short film.