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Meltdown

This short documentary examines the nuclear disaster that followed the March 11th, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture. That day, Japan was hit with the 5th-strongest earthquake ever recorded, but the real legacy of this disaster is the ensuing nuclear disaster: a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. This film tells the story of a chain of errors and oversights that led to the largest nuclear accident since Chernobyl.


Credits
  • narrator
    Elizabeth Robertson
  • editor
    Alison Burns
    Yoshinori Tajima
  • narration recording
    Luc Léger
  • mix
    Serge Boivin
  • sound editing
    Daniel Toussaint
  • graphics
    Mélanie Bouchard
    Gaspard Gaudreau
  • titles
    Mélanie Bouchard
    Gaspard Gaudreau
  • online editor
    Denis Gathelier
  • post-production supervisor
    Lucie Charbonneau
    Claudia Betancourt
  • post-production coordinator
    Jean-François Laprise
    Pierre Ferlatte
  • administrator
    Lise Crevier
  • script editor
    Gary Lang
  • producer
    Wally Longul
    Steve Burns
  • director
    Wally Longul
    Akio Suzuki
    Akihiko Nakai
  • advisor
    Hisashi Ninokata
    Hiroshi Miyano
    Isao Kataoka
    Masanori Naitoh
    Yuichiro Tanioka
  • drama cast
    Soryu Konno
    Touta Tawaragi
    Yoshikazu Kawabuchi
    Noriyoshi Tsumura
    Tomochika Izumi
    Kosuke Kujirai
    Kin Seikin
    Masashi Sekito
    Kosuke Takahashi
    Nagamasa Kato
  • drama producer
    Isao Tanikawa
    Hideki Ohno
  • journalist
    Yoshihiro Nemoto
    Yoshiyuki Yamasaki
    Hiroshi Yokokawa
    Kenichiro Okamoto
    Yumiko Sugaya
    Mikio Tanabe
  • camera
    Atsuhiko Ochiai
  • lighting
    Wataru Nakamura
    Keizo Shimogaki
  • sound
    Akihiro Suzuki
  • sound design
    Saori Ono
  • visual effects
    Tomoya Oguchi
  • visual design
    Tsutomu Okabe
  • computer graphics
    Makoto Ikeda
    Masahiro Matsumoto
    Kazuhiko Kobayashi
  • researcher
    Mike Nichoson
  • coordinator
    Su Nan Fang
  • writer
    Akio Suzuki
    Akihiko Nakai
  • executive producer
    Naofumi Nakamura
    Daisuke Takama
    Masahiro Fujikawa

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