#Barbenheimer backlash: Japan rejects co-marketing of Barbie and Oppenheimer as trivialising nuclear war

Warner Bros Japan has publicly criticised their US counterparts over inappropriate' reactions to art combining playful Barbie imagery with mushroom clouds

Warner Bros Japan has criticised what it called extremely regrettable" Barbenheimer tweets shared by their US counterparts.

It joins a growing backlash in Japan against the conflation of Greta Gerwig's playfully marketed film with Oppenheimer, a biopic of the scientist behind the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.