In commemoration of December 7, 1941, please join us for a screening of The Vow From Hiroshima, followed by a discussion with producer and writer Dr. Mitchie Takeuchi.

The Vow From Hiroshima follows Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, on her 75-year journey to channel her horrific experience as a 13-year-old into banning nuclear weapons globally. Told through the intergenerational lens of her friendship with a second- generation survivor, the film takes us through Setsuko's extraordinary life up to her present-day fight to abolish nuclear weapons.

Mitchie Takeuchi is originally from Hiroshima and a long-time New York City resident. She has been an entrepreneur, a writer, and a filmmaker. Her grandfather, Dr. Ken Takeuchi, was the director of the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima when the city was leveled by the first use of an atomic bomb, and both he and her mother, Takako, survived.

Dr. Takeuchi led the medical professionals until the end of 1948 and took a leadership role in rebuilding the hospital. Wanting to share what really happened under the mushroom cloud, Mitchie produced and co-wrote THE VOW FROM HIROSHIMA, interweaving the life story of Hiroshima survivor and activist Setsuko Thurlow, intergenerational activism, and the historic negotiations of The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. After a successful year-long theatrical run in 19 cities in Japan, Mitchie received the 2021 Japan Film Renaissance Conference Peace Film Award.