Movies: Fukushima disaster 2011

Over a year since three nuclear reactors went into full meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a broad anti-nuclear movement is growing in Japan. Nowhere is that more apparent that in Fukushima Prefecture, where a group of local women...

"Alone in Fukushima" is a feature film documentary about Naoto Matsumura who remained in the nuclear zone with animals in Fukushima....

'No-go zone' chronicles the daily life of the last man remained in the red zone after the evacuation of the Fukushima area and the nuclear power plant accident....

Eiko Kanno is a 79 year old grandmother whose life has been completely changed by the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Her life should have been with her grandchildren but because of the disaster which caused her entire village of Iitate to be evacuate...

December 21, 2015. The image of a fox was captured by a camera inside the unit 2 building at Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant... A film-essay about contemporary Japan in the aftermath of March 2011 earthquake....

The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 triggered a tsunami, nuclear meltdown and mass evacuations in Fukushima Prefecture. Today, as part of a Government push to encourage resettlement, local hunters have been enlisted to dispose of radiated Wild Bo...

Fukushima's Minami-soma has a ten-centuries-long tradition of holding the Soma Nomaoi ("chasing wild horses") festival to celebrate the horse's great contribution to human society. Following the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant i...

Six months after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the release of radiation there, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to discover whether nuclear power is safe. He begins in Japan, where he meets some of the tens of thousands of people...

It follows a group of investigators as they return to the nuclear zone in Fukushima to uncover the secrets behind the wildlife that has claimed the toxic environment as its own....

Eerie images of landscapes after the Fukushima nuclear disaster shot on black and white 8mm....

The Japanese population’s reaction to the catastrophe of March 2011 has been described as “stoic” by the Western media. The Japanese code of conduct is indeed deeply rooted in their Buddhist traditions, and young filmmakers Tim Graf and Jakob Montras...

The young French environmentalist and Member of the European Parliament Yannick Jadot wonders how the wounded nuclear beast might still have a bright future ahead after Fukushima. A few weeks after this terrible accident, and while there is no time t...

A documentary about the people of Hirono, a city located 20 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the whole town was forced to evacuate. In 2019, 80% of the population at the time...

Amateur's Riot (Shirōto no ran) is a Japanese association of activists, committed to the living conditions of the poor people (binbōnin) in Tōkyō. The association was founded in 2005 by Matsumoto Hajime, Yamashita Hikaru, Futatsugi Shin, Mochitsuki R...

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In the aftermath of the 3.11 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, the Japanese government began implementing a large-scale decontamination effort to clean up the radioactive materials. A mother, a farmer, a community leader, an evacuee - h...

We return to Fukushima five years after the nuclear disaster caused by a tsunami. What issues does the clean up operation face? What progress has been made in dealing with this major disaster, especially in the detection and removal of melted nuclear...

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Since the 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake, Fukushima is infamous worldwide for the radioactive contamination as a result of the explosion at the Daiichi (No.1) Nuclear Power Plant. However there is an untold story about what happened to the people l...

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