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A Lullaby Under the Nuclear Sky

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True Story · Social Criticism · Family  

  • CountryJapan
  • Production Year2014
  • Running Time69min
  • Format HDCAM
  • ColorColor
Program Note
As a documentary director and a citizen who used power created at the nuclear plant, Kana Tomoko feels it her responsibility to report the leak situation in tsunami-battered Fukushima. After returning to Tokyo she finds out that she is pregnant. She is overjoyed yet terrified by what the effects of her exposure to radiation may have on the baby. She realizes that her body is the site that may expose the Fukushima disaster, and that she and her baby’s story is the story of Fukushima. Hence her camera now points inward. The reflexive documentary makes a detailed record, proving that “the personal is political.” The film’s biggest strength lies in her honest voice, as it narrates the terror, anger and conflict she feels and the hope that blooms as she watches citizens participating in protest against nuclear plants. But this hope also becomes synonymous with a long and difficult fight against a government that will not give up nuclear power even in the face of catastrophe, and the 40 years that it will take to ameliorate the effects of radiation. (CHO Hyeyoung)
Director
Director
KANA Tomoko
Born in 1971 in Tokyo, Kana Tomoko became drawn to documentaries when she was featured on a TV program directed by Koreeda Hirokazu. After working at NHK as a News Director, she made the narrative screenplay Two by the River. Her third film, Beautiful Islands won the Asia Cinema Fund AND Award at BIFF 2009.
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  • Director KANA Tomoko 카나 토모코
  • Producer Masatoshi MUKAIYAMA, Mari MUKAI
  • Cast Victims of Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, Tomoko KANA
  • Cinematography Masatoshi MUKAIYAMA, Yukio MINAMI
  • Music Akira SUWABE
  • Production Company Horizon Features Co., Ltd.
    Japan Hase 8 Bldg 3F-318, Oomandokoro-cho 680-1, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 6008413
    office@kanatomoko.jp

  • World Sales Horizon Features Co., Ltd.
    Japan Hase 8 Bldg 3F-318, Oomandokoro-cho 680-1, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 6008413
    office@kanatomoko.jp