Urgent screening of the masterpiece "Sunflower" taken in Ukraine Donation is also Chiba Kashiwa

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a movie filmed in Ukraine and depicting the sadness of the war is being screened urgently at a movie theater in Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Ukrainian humanitarian aid.

The masterpiece "Himawari" released in 1970 at the "Kinema Junpo Theater" in Kashiwa City depicts the sadness of an Italian couple torn in the war during World War II.

The scene shot in the sunflower field in Ukraine is regarded as a famous scene, and the movie theater started an emergency screening to convey the misery of the war following the military invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

Distributors will donate a portion of their sales to help humanitarian aid in Ukraine.

A woman in her fifties who watched the movie said, "I felt that the war would be a sacrifice for people who have a good heart to break up. I hope watching the movie will help me a little."

A woman in her 70s said, "I felt the cruelty of the war again and imagined what the Ukrainians are feeling now. The calmness and suffering of the dead people buried under the sunflower field. I felt the face. "

Takeshi Esaki, Deputy Manager of "Kinema Junpo Theater," said, "Ukraine is not a distant country. I want you to feel that. "

Other films set in Ukraine will be screened at this cinema in the future.

What is the movie "Sunflower"?

The movie "Himawari," released in 1970 in the midst of the Cold War, was shot in Ukraine, which was part of the Soviet Union at the time.

In Italy during World War II, her wife, starring Sophia Loren, goes to the battlefield of the former Soviet Union to find her husband who never returns and arrives at a vast sunflower field.

Locals say, "Under this sunflower field, there are soldiers, prisoners of war, and the bodies of countless farmers, old men, and children."

This scene is said to have been taken in Kherson, south of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and is said to be a famous scene that contrasts the beauty of the sunflower, a symbolic flower of Ukraine, with the cruelty of war.

After that, her wife believed that her husband was alive and continued to search, resulting in a sad reunion and is known as a masterpiece depicting the sadness of an Italian couple torn in the war.