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Rokkasho Rhapsody (2006)

Rokkasho Rhapsody poster
Original title
六ヶ所村ラプソディー
Directed by
Hitomi Kamanaka
Genre
documentary film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 59m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film looks at a small Japanese village that hosts a nuclear reprocessing plant. It shows the daily life of residents and their mixed feelings about the facility.

observationalquietly angrymatter-of-factthoughtfuldeliberatesoberinginformative

What happens

Rokkasho Rhapsody (六ヶ所村ラプソディー, Rokkashomura rapusodī; also sometimes called in English Rokkashomura Rhapsody) is a Japanese documentary directed by Hitomi Kamanaka and released in 2006. It is the second in Kamanaka's trilogy of films on the problems of nuclear power and radiation, preceded by Hibakusha at the End of the World (also known as Radiation: A Slow Death) and followed by Ashes to Honey. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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