Japan finally screens 'Oppenheimer', with trigger warnings, unease in Hiroshima

Cillian Murphy poses with the Oscar for "Best Actor" as "J. Robert Oppenheimer" in "Oppenheimer" in the Oscars photo room at the 96th Academy awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

HIROSHIMA (Reuters) - Best picture winner "Oppenheimer" finally premiered in Japan on Friday, eight months after a controversial grassroots marketing push and concerns about how its nuclear theme would be received in the only country to suffer atomic bombing.

The biggest winner at this month's Academy Awards, the film directed by Christopher Nolan about U.S. physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the race to develop the atomic bomb, has grossed nearly $1 billion globally.