April 28, 2009, 4:35
pm
Japan's foreign minister has taken a swipe at the latest sequel
of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones blockbuster series for
trivialising the devastation of a nuclear bomb blast.
"There was a scene in a hit movie last year in which the famous
hero, facing a blast from a nuclear test, hid in a refrigerator,"
Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said in a speech against nuclear
weapons.
"I was surprised by the movie's lack of awareness of a nuclear
bomb blast. A nuclear explosion destroys everything in an instant.
I felt concern that this kind of easy-going image might spread
around the world."
The minister late on Monday did not identify the movie, but a
foreign ministry official confirmed on Tuesday that it was Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , the fourth in the hit
series directed by Spielberg.
Two US atomic bombs dropped on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki
cities in August 1945 killed more than 210,000 people, instantly or
in the following weeks. Japan surrendered less than a week later,
ending World War II.