Fukushima 50

2020 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama / Thriller

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 69% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 69%
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 3772 3.8K

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Plot summary

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

Director

Setsurô Wakamatsu Photo
Setsurô Wakamatsu

Top cast

Shirô Sano Photo
Shirô Sano as Prime Minister
Yûta Kanai Photo
Yûta Kanai as Koji Miyamoto
Mantarô Koichi Photo
Mantarô Koichi as Chairman of Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission
Keisuke Horibe Photo
Keisuke Horibe as Katsuji Kano
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.05 GB
1280*534
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 56 min
Seeds 2
2.16 GB
1920*800
Japanese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 56 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MekongSaburo 7 / 10

Were we saved by chance?

As Japanese, we have to keep thinking why our nation was helped out of ultimate destruction at that time. Major element might have been simply a chance, considering the fact that we could hardly understand what was going on.However, it is also true that nuclear engineers struggled for their lives in order to save Japan. Common people behaved calmly amid such a hopeless situation. It was not because somebody ordered them to do so but they originally had the sense of mission. Their noble sense was well expressed in this work.Memory of Fukushima disaster must not be forgotten. I hope this movie can contribute to this purpose.
Reviewed by jjtsxmsxc 8 / 10

Watch the Japanese cut in Japanese language!

I watched this movie the first time on Netflix in Europe. It was pretty good, good actors, bit cheap CGI but ok, as far as Japanese movies go, it's pretty decent. However, there were some jarring cuts to "American" soldiers and "American" embassy personnel that completely changed the tone of the movie, putting a spin on it that it the poor Japanese should be helped by Americans or otherwise will not manage to cope with the situation.On a rewatch using a different site, I found out that the jarring American scenes are only in there in western markets, to appeal to foreign viewers. The original cut doesn't include any western bits and leave a lot of the cheesy and redundant scenes out of it.So, if you watch this, make sure you watch the Japanese cut in Japanese language. You will thank me later.
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