Our man in Nagasaki: Film to unlock secret of the Samurai

It’s a needle-in-a-haystack documentary — with a twist — about a Corkman who survived the Nagasaki nuclear blast and ended up with a Samurai sword given to him by a Japanese officer.

After 15 years of work and four years preparing the documentary, its producer Bob Jackson will unveil all at the premiere which takes place at the Cork Film Festival. The documentary, which focuses on the quest to solve the Second World War mystery, will be screened at the Gate Cinema on Sunday, November 16, at 4.15pm.

It tells the incredible story of Dr Aidan MacCarthy and his daughter’s search to find out what really happened to her father after he survived the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki, while a prisoner of war.