Fukushima, mon amour

Name: Fukushima, mon amour
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1 h 48 min
Cast: Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Nami Kamata, Moshe Cohen, Honsho Hasayaka

2016

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Title: Fukushima, mon amour

Original Title: Grüße aus Fukushima

Year: 2016

Info

Country: Germany
Length: 108 Minutes (1 hour 48 min)
Genre: Drama
Studios: Olga Film GmbH Arte
Distributor: Abordar - Casa de Películas

Plot

"Missing is living with ghosts". Marie escapes from Germany, her homeland, to find a direction for her life. Alongside the NGO Clowns4Help, she will arrive to Fukushima to do her best to improve the life conditions of the survivors of the 2011 nuclear disaster. But when she is there, helping becomes something out of her reach. Marie stays with Satomi, the last geisha in the city, and she will become her only friend there, and her way to build a future. Each one will learn from the other in a journey that will make them let the past behind and expiate the guilt they carry with them like if it were a ghost. German director Doris Dörrie, known for 'Cherry Blossoms', helms this film about the Fukushima drama and its consequences, with Rosalie Thomas and Kaori Momoi as the leading parts

Cast

Director:

Doris Dörrie Doris Dörrie

Marie

Satomi

Nami

Moshe

Videos

2:04

'Greetings from Fukushima' Trailer

December 5 2017

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Trivia

A story is born

The idea for the movie was born in a trip of the director Doris Dorrie to Japan. "Every now and then, complete strangers would take my hand and show me the way. I've never felt so cared and spoiled in a stranger country and that sensation caused me a deep impression: being a foreigner and feeling everybody worried about me", the director explained.

A film reference

The title is a reference to Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959) which also deals with the trauma of a nuclear catastrophe, namely the Hiroshima bombing.

Few people

The way Doris Dorrie builds her films is atypical but it allowed 'Fukushima, mon amour''s filming to be easier. Since they use a small crew, very different from conventional big crews, it was simpler to get in difficult areas like the desolate region of Minimasoma in Fukushima.