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The Oscars' best picture winner "Oppenheimer" premiered in Japan amid concern over how victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings would react.

Universal Pictures initially left Japan off its global release schedule for "Oppenheimer."

Japan had been left out of worldwide screenings until now, despite being a major market for Hollywood

‘Oppenheimer’ has finally opened in Japan where two cities were attacked by the nuclear bombs, invented by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Universal Pictures initially left Japan off its global release schedule for 'Oppenheimer.'

Despite initial concerns about its nuclear theme, the film has achieved significant success worldwide, grossing nearly $1 billion in box office revenue.

Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer finally premiered in Japan on Friday, receiving mixed reactions and emotional responses.

One viewer called Christopher Nolan's blockbuster an 'amazing film,' but said it 'also depicts the atomic bomb in a way that seems to praise it.'

One viewer called Christopher Nolan's blockbuster an 'amazing film,' but said it 'also depicts the atomic bomb in a way that seems to praise it.'

Half a world away from Hollywood, citizens in Hiroshima, Japan, reacted to the best picture win for "Oppenheimer", the blockbuster that depicted the race to develop the atom bomb that devastated their city 78 years ago. The biopic about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer took in seven Oscars at Sunday night's Academy Awards after grossing $954 million worldwide. But the film has yet to screen in Japan, the only country to have suffered nuclear bombing, with US strikes on Hiroshima an...