Half-life in Fukushima Japan, Switzerland 2016 – 61min.
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Japan, 2011. A tsunami devastates the Fukushima region and damages the nuclear power plant, causing the evacuation of the entire population within a radius of several dozen kilometers. Five years later, one man still lives there: Naoto Matsumura. While the area is still far from risk-free, he continues his life in a landscape transformed by the lack of people and the ongoing decontamination work...
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German Switzerland: 9. March 2017
Romandie: 20. April 2016
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Cinematographer: Jakob Stark
Editor: Francesca Scalisi
Producer: Francesca Scalisi, Mark Olexa
Distributor: Producer
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ISAN-No. 0000-0004-21CB-0000-C
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kenneth_sarocky
Posted 7 years ago
"Half-Life in Fukushima" is half of a documentary. Long, boring shots of an evacuated city and countryside, a few uninformed comments about "radiation", and glances of demolition and garbage pickup, with no explanation or attempt at fact finding. People living and working in the area show that the evacuations were an over-reaction to minimal radiation danger; slow clean-up of Tsunami damage is ruining the area as a human habitation. Overall, there's the alarmist "environmental" mentality implying that the Nuclear Power plant somehow caused the Earthquake/Tsunami.… Show more
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