Girls in Summer Dresses: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 backdrop

Girls in Summer Dresses: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 1988 Directed by Toshio Hirata 夏服の少女たち~ヒロシマ・昭和20年8月6日~

In 1945, the second- and third-year students of a Hiroshima girls' school are taken away to work in war factories. The remaining 220 girls of the first year try to make the best of their new-found status as the only teenagers in an almost deserted town, even amid the deprivations of wartime. On the seventh of August, an American bomber changes their lives forever. Broadcast on the 43rd anniversary of Hiroshima in memory of "the girls who lost their lives to the atom bomb." (Source: Anime Encyclopedia)

Country Japan
Production Country Japan
Language Japanese
Spoken Language Japanese
Production Company Madhouse
Release Date 7 August 1988
34 mins