Fukushima 50

About Fukushima 50

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.

Fukushima 50 (2020) is a history film directed by Setsuro Wakamatsu. At 122 minutes long, it arrived in March 2020.

Its themes are disaster, earthquake, tsunami, and radiation. The story is adapted from a novel.

Ken Watanabe stars as Masao Yoshida, Koichi Sato as Toshio Izaki, Hidetaka Yoshioka as Takumi Maeda, and Narumi Yasuda as Mari Asano. The screenplay is by Yoichi Maekawa. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and AsianCrush.

Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare, San Andreas, and Unbroken make useful companions to Fukushima 50, all filed under fukushima disaster (2011), nuclear accidents, and nuclear disaster. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 196 votes.