Movie: A Gental Rain Falls for Fukushima
Source of Image Japanese Title: トテチータ・チキチータ Director: Atsushi Kokatsu Information about the movie in English at Asian Wiki . I watched this film, A Gentle Rain Falls for Fukushima , on my outbound flight to Taiwan. Fukushima, a keyword to me these days, immediately caught my attention and triggered my curiosity. Before the play button was pressed, I knew well that it would be about the post-quake nuclear disaster as the production date suggested. There has been a lot going on to protest against the nuclear power plant issue, while no much progress has been made with regard to the problem. Apart from some documentaries that I had watched, it was the first time for me to see a dramatic reflection on the disaster. The flow of the narrative and the art of narration remind me much of Ishiguro's novels. Much is implied, or suppressed, in a rather undramatic and slow story; sometimes tensions are washed away with comic reliefs. I was struck by t...