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Film: Nuclear Nation 2

Berlin Film Review: ‘Nuclear Nation II’ The devastating fallout of Japan’s nuclear disaster shows little sign of improvement in Atsushi Funabashi’s follow-up to ‘Nuclear Nation.’

Variety, 

@maggiesama 15 Feb 15

A less hard-hitting follow-up to “Nuclear Nation” (2012), Atsushi Funahashi’s latest documentary dwells in the stasis of its dispossessed subjects — residents of Futaba, where the Fukushima meltdown took place on March 12, 2011. Yet while the sense of frustration and impotence weighs heavily on viewers, it doesn’t reduce the significance of “Nuclear Nation II, which forces one to acknowledge that the crisis remains unresolved, and chillingly hints at a new debacle in the form of nuclear contamination. Like its predecessor, the film is being distributed in France by Wide House and should enjoy a strong presence in Europe, particularly on smallscreens.
Four years since the nuclear fallout, Japanese are still grappling with, or evading its consequences. While documentaries and quasi-fictional films flood the scene, many of them adopt a scattershot style, and are either too elliptical or emotional in their account of events. Funahashi’s approach, though hardly subtle or groundbreaking, maintains a singular focus on the evacuees, whose injustices suffered at the hands of the government are related with blunt clarity. The onscreen text at film’s close says it all: “They continue to live as refugees in their own country.”……

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