12m 23s

Making Peace With My Father

Hometown Stories

Broadcast on March 1, 2022 Available until March 15, 2023

We meet Kuroi Akio, a man who says he had always hated his own father. His father who returned from WWII was a shell of a man. What did he experience on the battlefield? Thirty-one years after his father's death, we followed Akio for one summer in his search to shed light on his father's emotional scars left by war.

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Kuroi Akio, aged 72, visits his father's grave. His relationship with his father, a former soldier, had troubled him.
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Kuroi created a place for families of former soldiers to interact. Various documents are on display of former soldiers with emotional scars left by war.
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A video of Kuroi's late father. Unable to interact, even with his grandchildren, he remained silent amid the merry laughter of family members.
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An album of Kuroi's father during his soldier days, retrieved from his home. It contained images Kuroi had never seen before.

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