Fukushima: A Nuclear Story
2015 1h 24m movie Film Japan

Fukushima: A Nuclear Story

A Nuclear Story

“Everybody's guilty. Nobody's guilty. As in war.”

Synopsis

A Nuclear Story

“Everybody's guilty. Nobody's guilty. As in war.”

A powerful documentary that sheds some light on what really happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and the tsunami that immediately followed. A powerful documentary – shot from March 11th, 2011 through March 2015 – that sheds some light on what really happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and the tsunami that followed.

The 2014–2016 Japan Window

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Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Fukushima: A Nuclear Story. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

The 2010s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Fukushima: A Nuclear Story premiered. 1769 total titles in this decade from Japan.

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Reception Benchmarks

7.5
TMDB Rating
24
Audience Reviews
Highly Rated
Critical Tier

Ranked #1,278 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (72nd percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is +0.6 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.

Among Japan Documentary productions specifically: #13 of 50 (top 26%).

Production Details

Primary Country Japan
Original Language En
Spoken Languages Japanese, English, Italian
Runtime 1h 24m
Release Date March 13, 2015
IMDb tt4078744
Official Site www.nuclearstory.com

Themes & Motifs

  • disaster
  • nuclear catastrophe
  • fukushima disaster (2011)
  • human made disaster
  • nuclear disaster

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