On August 9, 1945, a B29 super bomber dropped a fourteen pound plutonium nuclear

bomb called Fat Man, on the city of Nagasaki, Japan, instantly vaporizing over

45,000 men, women, and children. A select few of the victims became nuclear shadows,

wherein the blinding atomic light immortalized their poetic images on walls,

metal structures, and sidewalks. This story asks the haunting question – What if those shadows started to move?

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The horror demon is given an imaginative rebooting, as the five Japanese Yurei

demons must seek vengeance on the descendants of the Manhattan Project, in

Los Alamos. The ghosts battle with their own inner demons, as haunting memories of

their human selves begin to surface, blurring the line between the classic

mythology of good versus evil.

 

In modern day Nagasaki, five such statues are on display, outside the Atomic Memorial

Museum. A young child and a senior, on two separate guided tours, notice one of the

shadow's hands move. Japanese scientists discover that all the shadow statues have

minutely shifted their positions, but are unable to solve the mystery.

 

The statues are shipped to the Atomic Research Center in Los Alamos, New Mexico,

accompanied by a Japanese PHd student, who falls in love with her American

counterpart. Four of America's top nuclear scientists subject the statues to various

radiation experiments, accidently triggering the release of the five shadows from their earthly prison.

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Imbued with ferocious supernatural powers, they are bound by fate to kill all the

descendants in Los Alamos, whose ancestors worked on the Manhattan/Trinity nuclear

project, birthplace of the atomic age.

 

If they are successful, their souls will be liberated to eternal rest and the tortured

Yurei souls of the other 45,000 victims of the atomic bomb will be unleashed from the

underworld kingdom of the Goddess Izanami, America will become a frenzied

slaughterhouse.

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With the aid of a mystical Japanese shaman, the four unlikely heroes, along with their

colleague from Japan, must save the world from an unimaginable terror! Can they stop

these vengeful ghosts before they kill the last of the descendants and fulfill their

deadly prophecy?

 

Science and the Shaman arts must blend their skills and weaknesses against the

immortal forces of Queen Izanami and the Yurei shadows who retain vestiges of their

long forgotten humanity, and are at times, torn between duty and their nuclear hearts,

reconnecting to their human joys and sorrows.

 

The nuclear heart of the film lies in the relationships between Mayumi, the Japanese

student who falls in love with Ryan, one of the American researchers. Targeted by the

demons as one of the Trinity ancestors, their love must endure the ultimate

sacrifice.

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The blood bond between Mayumi and Tadanabu, her Great grandfather, the lead demon, is the potion that drives the climax of the story, and which is foreshadowed

throughout.

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The Shadows of Nagasaki – A nuclear karma tale weaving Japanese mythology against

modern American science, played against the backdrop of the town that started the

nuclear world.