Japanese film on Fukushima hits silver screen
- 10 years ago
Three year's after Fukushima, the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, Japan's first mass-market movie about the disaster has reached cinema screens across the country.
"Homeland" or "Ieji" (pronounced ee-aye-gee) in Japanese depicts the struggles of a farming family forced from their home and having to cope with cramped temporary housing as a result of the meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.
With memories still fresh in people's minds and a widespread debate in Japan over the future of the country's reactors, the film's director, Nao Kubota chose to avoid the political debate by instead opting to tell a more human story.
SOUNDBITE: Director of "Homeland", Nao Kubota, saying (Japanese):
"I wanted to stop the situation fading from our minds, I wanted to make a film that would be relevant for a long time to come, that people could watch in 10, 20, 50 or even 100 years and see that this sort of claustrophobic situation came about. That's what I want
"Homeland" or "Ieji" (pronounced ee-aye-gee) in Japanese depicts the struggles of a farming family forced from their home and having to cope with cramped temporary housing as a result of the meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.
With memories still fresh in people's minds and a widespread debate in Japan over the future of the country's reactors, the film's director, Nao Kubota chose to avoid the political debate by instead opting to tell a more human story.
SOUNDBITE: Director of "Homeland", Nao Kubota, saying (Japanese):
"I wanted to stop the situation fading from our minds, I wanted to make a film that would be relevant for a long time to come, that people could watch in 10, 20, 50 or even 100 years and see that this sort of claustrophobic situation came about. That's what I want