Watch Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat (2020) Online

During WWII, the Japanese army developed experimental balloons able to cross the Pacific Ocean and reach the West Coast of North America in 3-6 days. Armed with explosives, they were given the code name fu-go, or fusen bakudan (“fire balloons,” or balloon bombs) in an attempt to instill a culture of fear like that caused by the far more deadly American firebombing of Japanese cities. The U.S. responded by enacting a censorship campaign, requesting newspapers avoid reports of fu-go landings or sightings. Living near the remains of a fu-go launch site in Fukushima Prefecture, Takeuchi mimics their flight take-off using a drone camera, and, traveling to North America, follows their arrival across the shoreline and rural landscapes, using a bat’s echolocation as narrative device to place fu-go and Fukushima as echos across history. Read More

Watch Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat online. Featuring , Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat is classified as History and Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Japan and was released on 2020. Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat was directed by Kota Takeuchi. Read Less