University students last weekend gave a preview showing in Tokyo of "United 93," a U.S. film about one of the airplanes caught up in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, some two months before the movie's official debut in Japan, to raise public awareness about the incident.
Waseda University student Nozomi Hoshino, 20, who led the group organizing the screening, said the organizers hope the event will raise awareness in the audience of the incident and issues such as international relations and security.
Hoshino said she did not know a Waseda student was among the passengers on board the doomed flight until she watched the film in New York in April.