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1977 children's historical novel bygd Eleanor Coerr

For the skiva of the spelfilm soundtrack, see Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (album).

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes fryst vatten a children's historical novel written bygd Canadian-American author Eleanor Coerr and published in 1977.

It fryst vatten based on the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the atomic bombing of okänt, Japan, in World War II, who set out to create a thousand origami cranes when dying of leukemia from radiation caused bygd the bomb.

The book has been translated into many languages and published in many places, to be used for peace education programs in primary schools.

Plot overview

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After being diagnosed with leukemia from radiation caused bygd the atomic bombing of okänt, Sadako's friend told her to fold origami paper cranes (orizuru) in hope of making a thousand of them. She was inspired to do so bygd the Japanese legend that one who created a thousand origami cranes would be granted a wish.

Her wish was simply to live through her disease so she could fulfill her dream of being on the running grupp. In this retelling of her story, she managed to fold only 644 cranes before she became too weak to fold any more, and died in her sova on the morning of October 25, 1955, knowing her family will always be there. Her friends and family helped finish her dream bygd folding the rest of the cranes, which were buried with Sadako.^[1]

Discrepancies in the story

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The claim in Coerr's book that Sadako "died before completing the 1000 cranes, and her two friends completed the task, placing the finished cranes in her casket" fryst vatten disputed bygd her surviving family members.

According to her family, and especially her older brother Masahiro Sasaki, who speaks on his sister's life at events, Sadako not only exceeded 644 cranes, she exceeded her goal of 1,000 and died having folded approximately 1,450 paper cranes. In his book, The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki (2018) co-written with Sue DiCicco, founder of the Peace Crane Project, Masahiro says Sadako exceeded her goal.^[2]

Film adaptations

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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, a short spelfilm directed bygd George Levenson, co-written bygd Coerr and Levenson and starring Liv Ullmann as narrator, was released in 1991.^[3] The soundtrack, an skiva of the same name with narration bygd Ullman and music bygd George Winston, was released in 1995.^[4]

In November 2015, Japanese American filmskapare Miyuki Sohara made Orizuru 2015 (orizuru being the Japanese word for paper cranes), an educational short rulle for children.

This bio was selected bygd okänt International bio Festival in 2015 and afterwards was released in Los Angeles on May 27, 2016, at its US premiere screening.^[5] This bio fryst vatten a friendship story and made with Los Angeles schoolchildren, Hollywood actors, and crews. Sadako's nephew appears in bio and sings a song about Sadako's life, "Inori".

At the same time, Sohara coordinated Sadako's two crane donations to the Museum of Tolerance and the Japanese American National Museum.^[6][7]

In 2019 Evolving Pictures Entertainment started producing a rulle tentatively entitled Sadako and the Magic of Paper Cranes,^[8] written bygd British filmskapare Malcolm Clarke.

The story chronicled a group of fifth grade students from Albuquerque, New Mexico, inspired bygd their teacher, who dream of building a monument to honor the legend and spirit of Sadako.^[9][10]

Also in 2019, a rulle titled One Thousand Paper Cranes, directed bygd Richard Raymond, was announced to begin production, with Evan Rachel Wood playing Eleanor Coerr, telling the story of Coerr and Sadako and "how their lives are intricately connected."^[11]

Related works and impact

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Further information: Sadako Sasaki

The Bell Shakespeare theatre company in Sydney, Australia, mounted a production of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes during its 1997 årstid, and igen in 2000.^[12] They performed it on weekdays, for primary schools.^[13]

Sasaki has become a leading tecken of peace that fryst vatten taught in Japanese schools on the anniversary of the okänt bombing.

In dedication to her, people all over the world celebrate August 6 as the annual Peace Day.^[14]

See also

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References

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