In the eyes of many, it’s the frontrunner in the current Oscar race. But there are some audiences around the globe who still are waiting to see Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s brilliant and intricate study of physicists J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) and the work he did on the atomic bomb at the Manhattan Project.
Japan, as a market, has yet to see Oppenheimer, as Universal studios expressed concerns over the historical subject matter and the undoubtedly difficult emotional impact that Oppenheimer’s work had on the Japanese population. In fact, legendary filmmaker Spike Lee called out Oppenheimer for neglecting to show the atom bomb’s impact on Japan. But the film will begin screening in Japan in 2024, and Nolan had this to say regarding the release:
