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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.
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese-Canadian war drama film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II.
Aman (1967) - the story of a UK-trained Indian doctor who moves to Japan to treat patients suffering after the nuclear attack. Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) – a 12-year-old boy becomes anxious after seeing a Minuteman missile on a school field trip. He protests the existence of nuclear weapons by refusing to play baseball.
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean, known in Japan as simply Lorelei (ローレライ, Rōrerai), is a 2005 Japanese war drama film directed by Shinji Higuchi (in his feature directorial debut). [3] In the film, the Imperial Japanese Navy save Tokyo from a third atomic bomb during World War II. The film was the highest-grossing film in ...
Japan: MGM Home Entertainment. Fictional drama that takes place in Nagasaki at the time of the bombing. Sato, Junya (2005). Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen) (Feature-length, animated movie). Japan: Tara Releasing. Animated dramatization of the bombing of Hiroshima based on the writer's own experiences and the documented experiences of other survivors.
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and they remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
In regard to controversy surrounding the film, Christopher Howard writes that "whilst some readings of Japanese 1950s or 1960s science-fiction or horror films [...] view them as Japan’s way of dealing with the unrepresentable ‘trauma’ of the atomic bombing, the outpour of international criticism over Hiroshima, for instance, also suggests ...
By 21 March 2011, Toshiba had sent a 100-strong team to two Fukushima plants as part of a task-force of 700 Toshiba workers organized at Toshiba's Isogo Engineering Centre to defuse the nuclear crisis, and Hitachi had dispatched 120 to Fukushima I and formed a 1000-strong task force.