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Fukushima: A Nuclear Story (2015)

Documentary | 84 minutes
3,17 3 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 84 minuten

Country: Italy

Directed by: Matteo Gagliardi

Stars: Massimo Dapporto and Willem Dafoe

IMDb score: 7,2 (434)

Releasedate: 1 January 2015

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Fukushima: A Nuclear Story plot

"Everybody's guilty. Nobody's guilty. As in war."

In 2011, a earthquake and tsunami destroyed the Fukushima I nuclear power plant in Ōkuma, Japan. Italian reporter Pio d'Emilia, who has lived in Japan for more than thirty years, was in Tokyo on the day of disaster and immediately decided to leave for the tsunami-hit area. In this four-year documentary, d'Emilia sheds light on what really happened at the nuclear power plant and how Japan was ultimately rescued from a greater catastrophe.

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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale occurred at a depth of about thirty kilometers with the epicenter about 130 kilometers east of Japan. It was the strongest earthquake measured in the region and it caused a tsunami that flooded the Fukushime Daiichi nuclear reactor with waves of up to 13 meters high that reached the mainland at a speed of almost 800 kilometers per hour. The Italian journalist Pio d'Emilia was working in the area as a reporter for an Italian news channel and filmed the reactions of the victims, also during the half hour between the earthquake and the tsunami. Based on Willem Dafoe's commentary, this documentary reveals how the Japanese decision-making after the disaster (when international attention had wandered) and also provides insight into Japanese culture to explain the reactions to it. A fascinating, relevant history lesson produced by Greenpeace, among others, who apparently believe that support for nuclear energy has decreased significantly as a result of this disaster. The main drawback is the additional commentary by the mechanical-sounding Rachel Roberts and by Hal Yamanouchi, who is difficult to understand because of his accent.

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