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Watch Online / News From Fukushima: Meditation on an Under-Reported Catastrophe by a Poet (2018)
Desc: News From Fukushima: Meditation on an Under-Reported Catastrophe by a Poet: Directed by Yoshiaki Tago. Fukushima is the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. It will take decades and billions of dollars to keep the multiple meltdowns under control. Spewed radiation has reached as far as the American West Coast. Some 100,000 people were displaced from the no-go zone. But, eight years after 3.11, the story hardly makes headlines. Journalist Yuri Kageyama turns to poetry, dance, theater, music and film, to remind us that the human stories must not be forgotten. The film documents a performance directed by Carla Blank, who brings together a multicultural cast of artists to create provocative theater with dance and music. NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA is a literary prayer for Japan. It explores the friendship between women, juxtaposing the intimately personal with the catastrophic.