Miniseries · Channel 4
Fukushima: Days That Shocked the World
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Fukushima: Days That Shocked the World actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Fukushima: Days That Shocked the World reads strongest on Serialized, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Survivors and witnesses recall March 11 2011 - when Japan was hit by a devastating tsunami of 40-foot waves, killing 20,000 and triggering a nuclear meltdown.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Tom GorhamExecutive Producer
- Phil SteinProducer
- Paul HeaneyExecutive Producer
- Robin ProbynProducer
- Nick GodwinExecutive Producer
Direction
- Phil SteinDirector
Cinematography
- Robin ProbynDirector of Photography
Where to watch
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