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Alone in the Zone
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Alone in the Zone

18 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Naoto Matsumura is 53 years old and the only person left living inside Tomioka, a town inside Fukushima's 20-kilometer evacuation zone, two years after the Daiichi nuclear plant went into meltdown. He stays to feed the cattle, dogs, and other animals abandoned when everyone else fled, working through radiation levels the government says are unsafe for anyone. The film follows him through empty streets and shuttered farmhouses, recording his anger at TEPCO and at officials who declared the zone off-limits and mostly left it that way. A second subject, farmer Kenji Hasegawa, took the opposite path: he evacuated his town of Iidate and now lives in temporary housing, watching his community scatter into shelters and rental units. Interviews with both men lay out two versions of the same disaster, one man refusing to leave, one man unable to go home, and neither convinced the government has handled either outcome honestly. Two years on, the film treats the meltdown less as a finished event than as an ongoing argument over who owes what to the people left behind.