Aug 07, 2015
70 min
Full-HD

A Doctor's Sword (2015)

An Irish doctor survived the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki and was given a Samurai sword for the lives he saved. 70 years later his family searches for the origin of their father's sword.

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Documentary Animation War

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Ireland Japan

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Gambit Pictures

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