A Doctor's Sword
★ 5.4 · 2015 · 70m · Documentary · Animation · War
An Irish doctor survived the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki and was given a Samurai sword for the lives he saved. 70 years later his family searches for the origin of their father's sword.
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