A Documentary by Thomas Nordanstad about Hashima the ghost island in Japan. This documentary will take you into a surreal trip around this abandoned and uninhabited island about 9 miles from Nagasaki.
This abandoned island was once populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The shape and structure of the island that looks like a battleship gained the island a nickname, Gunkanjima which mean the Battleship Island.
The island is roughly the size of a football field. This was the most densely populated place on earth before Mitsubishi, the company who owned the island, closed the operation in 1974. Upon closing they offered the population to apply for jobs on the mainland, leading to a mass-exodus within only a few days of closing its mines. Thus, the island was left as if a neutron bomb had gone through it, with people's breakfasts remaining on the tables, bicycles leaning on the walls, and beds still unmade. It is a harrowing place
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