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Film · 2016

Fukushima, mon amour

Original titleGrüße aus Fukushima

Directed by Doris Dörrie · starring Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi and Nami Kamata

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Synopsis

"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

The essentials

Runtime
108 min1 hour and 48 minutes
How long is Fukushima, mon amour?
1 hour and 48 minutes (108 minutes).
Who directed Fukushima, mon amour?
Doris Dörrie.
Who is in Fukushima, mon amour?
It stars Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Nami Kamata and Moshe Cohen.
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Cast

Full cast (9)
Director
Doris Dörrie
Writers
Doris Dörrie
Producers
Benjamin Hermann, Molly Von Fürstenberg

Videos and trailers

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'Greetings from Fukushima' Trailer 2:044 December 2017

Photos and posters

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Reviews

All 6 reviews

What the critics say average 6.3 from 6

  • 8.0 FotogramasAntonio Trashorras "Significant, but light at the same time, Dörrie's last entrance is magnificent [...]. A filmmaker whose author pillars become perfectly recognizable one more time." Read
  • 8.0 VarietyMaggie Lee "Doris Doerrie's two-hander offers a refreshingly quirky perspective on a heavy subject" Read
  • 6.0 El PaísJordi Coste it would have been good some role of inner fire, because, in his worst moments, falls into a certain simplifying and tourist attitude before the proverbial oriental wisdom in the acceptance of the… Read

Soundtrack

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  1. Impromptu # 3Franz Schubert

Trivia

  • Avoiding danger

    In order to not endanger the crew by filming in the area around the Fukushima disaster nuclear reactor, the director took measurements with a contamination meter; the film crew took dust samples and was counselled by radiation experts in Japan and Munich.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Hiroshima

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

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