Barbie movie: Warner Bros Japan sorry for replying to atom bomb memes

Warner Bros Japan has apologised aft an authoritative Barbie Movie relationship replied to Barbenheimer memes featuring atom weaponry images.

Barbie and Oppenheimer were released implicit the aforesaid play successful the US, which prompted the Barbenheimer phenomenon.

Some images showed Margot Robbie with a mushroom unreality hairstyle. The authoritative Barbie movie relationship replied: "This Ken is simply a stylist".

Barbie is scheduled to beryllium released connected 11 August successful Japan.

But up of its debut, #NoBarbenheimer has been trending successful the world's 3rd largest movie marketplace aft the US and China.

Other meme images that enraged Japanese societal media users see 1 showing Cillian Murphy, who played Robert Oppenheimer - known arsenic the "father of the atomic bomb", carrying Ms Robbie connected his enarthrosis done a burning city. The Barbie movie authoritative relationship replied: "It's going to beryllium a summertime to beryllium remembered".

In a connection posted connected Warner Bros Japan's ain Barbie account, the steadfast said it was "extremely regrettable that the authoritative relationship of the American office for the movie 'Barbie' reacted to the societal media postings of 'Barbenheimer' fans."

Warner Bros successful the US did not instantly respond to a BBC petition for comment.

Twitter, which has precocious rebranded to X, has since added assemblage notes to archetypal posts to item the humanities discourse of the atomic weaponry attacks connected Japan.

The recorded decease tolls are estimates, but it is thought that astir 140,000 of Hiroshima's 350,000 colonisation were killed successful the blast connected 6 August 1945. At slightest 74,000 radical died successful erstwhile Nagasaki was bombed 3 days later.

The radiation released by the bombs caused thousands much radical to dice from radiation sickness successful the years that followed.

One societal media idiosyncratic posted: "My gramps was successful Hiroshima until a fewer days earlier the atomic weaponry was dropped. Among those who died nether that mushroom unreality were galore children who were astatine the property of playing with Barbie dolls."

A spokesperson for the metropolis of Hiroshima told the BBC that 78 years on, it volition "continue moving to dispersed the cognition and understandings of the carnal and intelligence interaction of atomic bombs arsenic good arsenic a-bomb survivors' anticipation for atomic disarmament".

The distributor of Oppenheimer has not yet announced a merchandise day for the movie successful Japan.