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The Guardian - AU
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Justin McCurry in Tokyo

Oppenheimer to finally be released in Japan after ‘Barbenheimer’ backlash

Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer sparked a backlash in Japan when Universal Studios put it on general release in the US and other countries in July Photograph: Universal Pictures

Audiences in Japan will finally get to see Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan’s hit biopic about the creator of the nuclear bomb – following criticism that it was marketed in a way that trivialised the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The movie’s distributor in Japan, Bitters End, said on Thursday that the film, which examines J Robert Oppenheimer’s moral quandary over his key role in the world’s first nuclear attack on 6 August 1945, would be released in 2024.

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