Cold Shutdown is a report on how citizens in Fukushima Prefecture developed their own parallel institutions for health, food and more in order to protect the lives of their children and themselves in the face of the nuclear contamination of their region, still widespread a year after the disastrous meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In the film we hear from the women of Fukushima occupying the grounds of the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry, and visit citizen radiation testing sites, food distribution centers, and schools. This film, shot nine months after the disaster, in Fukushima City, Nihonmatsu, and Tokyo, gives a sense of the high price that citizens pay for a government policy that favors decontamination over relocation.
冷温停止 In Japanese: http://vimeo.com/64314083