Images: A Nagasaki Postman: A Timeless Message of Peace from Survivors of War

A view of Peter Townsend’s 1984 nonfiction novel The Postman of Nagasaki. (© The Postman from Nagasaki Film Partners/Sakamoto Ayumi)

Kawase Mika, director of The Postman from Nagasaki. (© The Postman from Nagasaki Film Partners)

Isabelle Townsend looks out over Nagasaki Bay in The Postman from Nagasaki. (© The Postman from Nagasaki Film Partners/Sakamoto Ayumi)

Taniguchi Sumiteru, at left, with Peter Townsend. (© The Postman from Nagasaki Film Partners)

Isabelle Townsend with her father. (© The Postman from Nagasaki Film Partners)

Isabelle Townsend pushes Taniguchi Sumiteru’s float in Nagasaki’s traditional Obon Spirit Boat Procession. (© The Postman from Nagasaki Film Partners)

Filming in Nagasaki for The Postman from Nagasaki. (© The Postman from Nagasaki Film Partners/Sakamoto Ayumi)

The film follows Isabelle to numerous sites visited by her father. (© The Postman from Nagasaki Film Partners/Sakamoto Ayumi)

Isabelle also meets an interpreter who assisted her father’s research. (© The Postman from Nagasaki Film Partners/Sakamoto Ayumi)