“Four years have passed since the accident. You feel that your relationship to radioactive contamination is changing,” intones the narrator near the beginning of Ana Vaz’s Hanabi in an intimate, yet almost affectless, voice. The accident in question is the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, which displaced over 160,000 people. The “you” she is referring to is much more unclear, one of the many mysteries of the film that adds to a growing sense of alienation and remove, keeping the film’s...
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