Fukushima 50 (2020)

 

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake an tsunami in 2011.

TV drama strives for authenticity in a semi-documentary style, but - although presenting many facts - it appears almost in its staging and with most of the performances (Ken Watanabe the only exception) and seems to have been made only half-heartedly.  

 

The Sea of Trees (2015)

 

 

A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.

Despite all credentials (director and cast) this intended moral tale is highly sentimental and simply doesn't convince with its construed plot twists and turns; good nature photography, though. 

Shanghai (2010)

An American expat returns to Shanghai in the months before Pearl Harbor due to the death of his friend.

Nicely produced and photographed spy thriller as a homage to the 40s Noir series; however, it's all on the surface, the star cast work only perfunctory, and the movie fails to spark any emotions.