
The Asadas!(2020)
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.


“In the darkest hours, courage prevails.”
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.

Ken Watanabe
Masao Yoshida

Koichi Sato
Toshio Izaki

Hidetaka Yoshioka
Takumi Maeda

Narumi Yasuda
Mari Asano

Naoto Ogata
Shoichi Nojiri

Shōhei Hino
Hisao Omori

Mitsuru Hirata
Shigeru Hirayama

Masato Hagiwara
Kazuo Igawa

Keisuke Horibe
Katsuji Kano

Hisahiro Ogura
Kota Yano
Fukushima 50 is a history, drama, action film released in 2020 exploring themes of japan, based on novel or book, radiation, aftermath, earthquake, based on true story. Directed by Setsuro Wakamatsu, it stars Ken Watanabe, Koichi Sato, Hidetaka Yoshioka. 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.
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