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'Oppenheimer' will screen in Japan in 2024, distributors say

The decision to release the movie profiling the American scientist follows criticism that the film largely ignored the impact of the bombings that killed more than 200,000 people in Japan.
Irish actor Cillian Murphy, who portrayed U.S. theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, poses on the red carpet upon arrival for the U.K. premiere of <em>Oppenheimer</em> in central London on July 13, 2023.

SEOUL, South Korea – More than four months after the movie 's release in the U.S., movie distributors have to air the film next year in Japan, the country where J. Robert

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