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Fukushima 50 is a 2020 Japanese disaster drama film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu and written by Yōichi Maekawa. Starring Koichi Sato and Ken Watanabe, it is about the titular group of employees tasked with handling the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The film is based on the book by Ryusho Kadota, titled On the Brink: The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi, and it is the first Japanese film to depict the disaster.[5]

Fukushima 50
Film poster
Directed by	Setsurō Wakamatsu[1]
Written by	Yōichi Maekawa[1][2]
Based on	On the Brink: The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi by Ryusho Kadota[1]
Produced by	Naohiko Ninomiya
Starring	Koichi Sato[1] Ken Watanabe[1]
Cinematography	Shoji Ehara
Edited by	Ziliang Kai
Music by	Taro Iwashiro[1]
Production company	Kadokawa Daiei Studio
Distributed by	Kadokawa[1]
Release date	March 6, 2020 (2020-03-06) [3][4]
Running time	122 minutes[3]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	$7.4 miilion[3]

Synopsis

At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history with a magnitude of 9.1 and a maximum seismic intensity of 7 occurred. A huge tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. It was clear that a nuclear reactor lost all power due to flooding by the tsunami. A station blackout (SBO) caused the reactor to fall into an uncoolable situation and suffer unimaginable damage due to nuclear meltdown.

On-site workers, including Izaki Haruka, who is on duty at Units 1 and 2, remain in the nuclear power plant and work hard to control the reactor. Director Masao Yoshida, who oversees the overall command, inspires his subordinates, but also expresses anger at the head office and the Kantei (Prime Minister's Office), which are not fully aware of the situation. However, the efforts at the site were in vain and the situation continued to worsen, forcing the surrounding people to evacuate.

In the worst scenario of this accident estimated by the Kantei, the damage range would have a 250 km radius with the evacuation target population of circa 50 million people, which meant the destruction of eastern Honshu (largest main island). The only option left on the scene is "venting", which has never been done before in the world and requires manual labor by a worker to rush into the reactor with their body. The operation finally began while it was cut off from the outside world and no information entered.

Cast

• Koichi Sato as Toshio Isaki, the shift supervisor of the power plant[1]
• Ken Watanabe as Masao Yoshida, the site superintendent of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant during the disaster[1]
• Riho Yoshioka as Izaki Haruka
• Hidetaka Yoshioka as Maeda Takumi
• Narumi Yasuda as Asano Mari
• Shirō Sano as the Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan
• Mitsuru Hirata as Hirayama Shigeru
• Yuri Nakamura as Maeda Kana
• Shigeru Izumiya as Matsunaga
• Shōhei Hino as Omori Hisao
• Naoto Ogata as Nojiri Shōichi

Production

Filming began in November 2018.[6] Post-production began in May 2019.[5][7]

Reception

Mark Schilling of The Japan Times gave the film a positive review, stating it "strives, boldly for a mainstream film, to tell certain home truths, from the profits-first mindset of the plant's operators."[4]

References

External links

• Fukushima 50 at IMDb 
• 地上波初放送　映画『Fukushima50』の事実歪曲とミスリード 門田隆将の原作よりひどい事故責任スリカエ、東電批判の甘さの理由（Japanese）

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