Indie distributor Bitters Finish has lastly set a theatrical launch date in Japan for Christopher Nolan’s lauded “Oppenheimer” – after the Oscars.

The movie will arrive in Japanese cinemas on March 29, the corporate mentioned on Thursday. That date is a few two and a half weeks after the Oscars ceremony (March 10 in Los Angeles, March 11 in Japan), at which “Oppenheimer” has a robust probability of profitable a number of awards.

On the Oscars nomination occasion, earlier this week, “Oppenheimer” grew to become the front-runner, accumulating 13 nods, together with greatest image, greatest director and a trio of performing nominations.

Regardless of its essential and business success in cinemas around the globe final 12 months – it earned $952 million – the movie is controversial in Japan. The 2 atomic bombs created by Oppenheimer and his group have been detonated in 1945 over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing a whole bunch of hundreds of Japanese residents.

The movie was launched in most territories in July by Common. However Toho-Towa, which usually handles most common titles in Japan as a sub-distributor, selected not go forward with the discharge.

In December, Bitters Finish mentioned that it had picked up the movie “following months of considerate dialogue related to the subject material and acknowledging the specific sensitivity for we Japanese.”

“After screening the movie, we really feel Christopher Nolan has created a singular cinematic expertise that transcends conventional storytelling and have to be seen on the large display screen. We invite the viewers to observe the movie with their very own eyes relating to Japan.”

On social media, Bitters Finish mentioned in December: “This can be a spectacular true story drama that depicts the unknown lifetime of a person who holds the destiny of the world in his arms whereas on the similar time going through a disaster that would destroy it […] It has been hailed as Nolan’s greatest work ever and is taken into account a prime candidate for varied movie awards.”

Bitters Finish is not any stranger to Oscar-worthy motion pictures. It beforehand dealt with multi-Oscar winner “Parasite” in Japan and is presently enjoying Japan’s Oscar-nominated “Excellent Days.”