Japan 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.
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 2014–2016 Japan Window
Fukushima: A Nuclear Story holds position #183 of 581 Japan films in the 2014–2016 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Japan, 1769 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Fukushima: A Nuclear Story premiered alongside 180 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 180 other Japan films in 2015.
The 3102nd Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
24 audience reviews — more than 42% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 13th percentile among Japan films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Fukushima: A Nuclear Story, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- fukushima disaster (2011) · 3
- human made disaster · 3
- nuclear disaster · 3
- nuclear catastrophe · 1
- disaster · 23
Reception Benchmarks
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 |