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Nuclear Nation II

Original title: Nuclear Nation II: The Fukushima Refugees Story
Year: 2014
Running time: 114 min.
Country: Japan
Director: Atsushi Funahashi
Screenwriter: Atsushi Funahashi
Cast: Documentary
Music: Haruyuki Suzuki
Cinematography: Atsushi Funahashi, Yutaka Yamasaki
Producer: Wide House, BIG RIVER FILMS, Documentary Japan
Genre: Documentary | Disaster Film
Synopsis: Nuclear Nation II follows a new group of people exiled from Futaba, the region occupied by the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Since the 1960s, Futaba had been promised prosperity with tax breaks and major subsidies to make up for the presence of the plant... until the townspeople lost their homeland on March 11, 2011. The film portrays their lives as refugees in an abandoned high school, and in temporary housing. The political fallout from the nuclear disaster results in conflict between residents, and the mayor is forced to resign. Many decide to move back to Fukushima prefecture, just outside the evacuation zone. The town finds itself divided by the arbitrariness of evacuation, radiation levels, and compensation guidelines from the plant's operator. And then, the Japanese government announces a plan to turn Futaba into an official, literal wasteland. Is it possible to truly compensate the townspeople for what they have lost? Through their agonies and frustrations, the film questions the real cost of nuclear energy and unbridled capitalism.

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Nuclear Nation II

2014

Atsushi Funahashi