Can Man Forget Hiroshima?
Director Junya Sakino has tapped Steven Man to play the lead role in his dramatic tale, “Orizuru”, an original screenplay scheduled to commence production early November, 2005. This will be Sakino’s second project through DiVerse Pictures. Produced by Lendi Slover, this historical drama finds it’s setting in the last stages of WWII, between 1941-1945. An American diplomat, Gregory Jackson (Steven Man), arrives on an intelligence mission to Hiroshima, Japan. Tensions between the two countries are at an all-time high, yet despite the hostile political climate and cultural taboos, a beautiful, young interpreter for the Japanese government falls into Jackson’s world. Their secret affair leads to a child; all too soon, however, utopia is shattered when Jackson unexpectedly and seemingly without reason is recalled to the US, alone. Communication is virtually non-existent, but four months later on December 7th, 1941 they get much worse and the reason for his sudden departure becomes all to cl