
Fukushima Now – What has happened to the People?
Two years after the tsunami and reactor meltdowns of March 2011, this film returns to the towns around Fukushima to see what daily life looks like once the news cameras have moved on. It follows residents still living with contamination warnings, evacuees unable to return to homes inside the exclusion zone, and families weighing whether the government's reassurances about safety can be trusted. Farmers talk about crops they can no longer sell, parents describe monitoring their children's exposure, and former neighbors describe communities scattered across temporary housing. The film keeps its focus on the human toll rather than the technical failure at the plant itself, using interviews and on-the-ground footage of abandoned streets, radiation checkpoints, and makeshift housing blocks to show what recovery actually looks like two years on. It is a quiet, ground-level account of a disaster that mostly disappeared from international headlines long before it disappeared from the lives of the people who lived through it.