Check out this trailer for upcoming true story Fukushima 50 with Ken Watanabe. Ten years ago the world looked on, as Japan battled to avert a potentially world-changing catastrophe – when, following an earthquake and tsunami, a nuclear reactor started to leak. Hot on the heels of 2019’s acclaimed Chernobyl, comes another recreation of a truly chilling moment in history, when the fate of mankind seemed to hang in the balance – or rather, in the hands of the workers at the Japanese power plant, who became known as the ‘Fukushima 50’.
Kôichi Satô (Mishima) is also amongst the cast of the film which is a sobering look at how bravery and resourcefulness managed to avert a Chernobyl-scale catastrophe.
11 March 2011. When a 9.0 magnitude earthquake causes a colossal Tsunami workers at the Fukushima Nuclear facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the power plant to prevent total destruction. Plant manager Yoshida (Ken Watanabe) and his team try everything to contain the leak. Nearly an hour after the quake, the plant suffers a power outage, causing the power-operated cooling systems to fail. Although the workers initially try to run the plant on car batteries, they eventually risk their lives to get closer to the reactors and work manually to prevent the plant from overheating. This is their incredible tale.
The film is released through Altitude [digital] from the 8th March. Watch the trailer below.
