Am 11. März 2011 um 14:46 Uhr Ortszeit wird Japan vom schlimmsten Erdbeben in der Geschichte des Landes erschüttert. Das Beben löst einen verheerenden Tsunami aus, der das Kernkraftwerk von Fukushima unter einer gigantischen Flutwelle begräbt. Die Naturkatastrophe verursacht einen gefährlichen Stromausfall in der gesamten Anlage – Explosionen, Brände und irreparable Schäden an vier Reaktorblöcken führen zu Kernschmelzen und massiver Freisetzung radioaktiver Stoffe. Schichtleiter Izaki und Werkschef Yoshida stehen vor einer schweren Entscheidung: Sollen sie und ihre Arbeiter vor der gefährlichen Strahlung fliehen oder ihr Leben aufs Spiel setzen, um den Super-GAU zu verhindern.

Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. His anti-nuclear activism grew after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, and his career only paused after a 2014 cancer diagnosis.

The Radiant explores the aftermath of March 11, 2011, when the Tohoku earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed many thousands and caused the partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the east coast of Japan. Burdened by the difficult task of representing the invisible aftermath of nuclear fallout, The Radiant travels through time and space to invoke the historical promises of nuclear energy and the threats of radiation that converge in Japan in the months immediately following the disaster.

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.

Marie, eine junge Deutsche, reist auf der Flucht vor ihren zerplatzten Lebensträumen nach Japan. Sie schließt sich der Organisation Clowns4Help an, die im Katastrophengebiet von Fukushima den Opfern der Dreifachkatastrophe von 2011 ein wenig Freude in die Notunterkünfte bringen will, in denen überwiegend ältere Menschen noch immer leben, weil sie nicht wegziehen wollten oder konnten. Doch Marie muss sich bald eingestehen, dass sie für diese Aufgabe überhaupt nicht geeignet ist. Kurz davor, erneut davonzulaufen, begegnet sie der eigenwilligen Satomi, der letzten Geisha Fukushimas, die es sich in den Kopf gesetzt hat, in ihr zerstörtes Haus in der Sperrzone zurückzukehren. Maria hilft Satomi bei den Aufräumarbeiten. Dabei kommen sich die junge und die alte Frau, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, langsam näher und werden beide mit den Geistern ihrer Vergangenheit konfrontiert.

At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experiences a black out due to the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The cooling system fails at the nuclear power plant and the temperature of the nuclear reactor rises. The worst case is coming. Scientists face an unexpected situation and government officials are confused by lack of information. Residents says goodbye to their hometown before evacuating.

Every nuclear weapon made, every watt of electricity produced from a nuclear power plant leaves a trail of nuclear waste that will last for the next four hundred generations. We face the problem of how to warn the far distant future of the nuclear waste we have buried --but how to do it? How to imagine the far-distant threats to the sites, what kinds of monuments can be built, could stories or legends safeguard our descendants? Filmed at the only American nuclear burial ground, at a nuclear weapons complex and in Fukushima, the film grapples with the ways people are dealing with the present problem and imagining the future. Part observational essay, part graphic novel, this documentary explores the idea that over millennia, nothing stays put.

The referendum whether nuclear power plants should be banned has been held in Japan. People must decide their future.

Die aufregende Geschichte der Atomspaltung, ein wissenschaftlicher Durchbruch von unschätzbarer Bedeutung, der das Atomzeitalter einleitete, hat eine dunkle Seite: die vielen Ereignisse, bei denen Menschen absichtlich oder versehentlich Strahlung ausgesetzt waren.

After the 11 March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, residents of Futaba, a town in Fukushima Prefecture, are relocated to an abandoned high school in a suburb of Tokyo, 150 miles south. With a clear and compassionate eye, filmmaker Atsushi Funahashi follows the displaced people as they struggle to adapt to their new environment. Among the vivid personalities who emerge are the town mayor, a Moses without a Promised Land; and a farmer who would rather defy the government than abandon his cows to certain starvation.

Eerie images of landscapes after the Fukushima nuclear disaster shot on black and white 8mm.

Der als Essay-Dichtung angelegte Dokumentarfilm hinterfragt die Entscheidung für die Kernenergie und klingt dabei wie eine düstere Prophezeiung, zumindest jedoch wie eine Mahnung.

30 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe and 5 years after Fukushima it is time to see what has been happening in the “exclusion zones” where the radioactivity rate is far above normal.

In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese farmer ekes out a solitary existence within the radiation red zone.

Short documentary about the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The Japanese population’s reaction to the catastrophe of March 2011 has been described as “stoic” by the Western media. The Japanese code of conduct is indeed deeply rooted in their Buddhist traditions, and young filmmakers Tim Graf and Jakob Montrasio observe in detail what this means for the people and their religion. At graveyards, in temples, at monasteries and with families, they question the impact this triple affliction has had on the lives and beliefs of the inhabitants. How deeply do their beliefs affect their grieving? What role do the monks play in assisting people with their grief? And, what effects has this enormous catastrophe had on their religious rituals? SOULS OF ZEN inserts the events of March 2011 into the context of traditional Zen Buddhism, examining Japan’s religiousness and the beliefs of those practising it at a crucial turning point.

True story of an American volunteer who discovered the unvarnished truth about the Fukushima nuclear disaster cover-up while living in Japan. A critical look at how the authorities handled the nuclear crisis and Tsunami relief by an American who volunteered in the clean-up.

It follows a group of investigators as they return to the nuclear zone in Fukushima to uncover the secrets behind the wildlife that has claimed the toxic environment as its own.

Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is transferred from Aizu Wakamatsu City to Naraho Town to take over the Disaster PR Division. Murai takes Kokuhei around Fukushima including areas washed away by the tsunami. They examine the still incomplete railway lines, the unfinished decontamination area and villages in the danger zone, where deadly cesium continues to pile up. One day Kokuhei is told to organize a party to celebrate the professor who has been appointed as deputy director of the Atomic Energy Research Institute.