Set in Hiroshima starting in April 1954, the film follows 12-year-old Sadako Sasaki
It is here that folklore meets tragedy.
Furthermore, Masahiro revealed that the "wish" was retroactively applied. Sadako, he says, never talked about the 1,000 cranes granting a wish. She folded them as a gift to her family—to prove she was still there, still fighting.