SADAKO
AND THE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES
A Half Hour Video
Drawings by Ed Young |
Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese girl, on the threshold
of adolescence, developed leukemia in 1955, from the effects of radiation
caused by the bombing of Hiroshima. While hospitalized, her closest friend
reminded her of the Japanese legend that if she folded a thousand paper
cranes, the gods might grant her wish to be well again. With hope and
determination, Sadako began folding.
Liv Ullmann vividly tells this poignant story with original
music performed by George Winston. The action is presented as the camera
moves through hundreds of exquisite pastel drawings by Caldecott Award-winning
artist, Ed Young. Ed Young.
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