
Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
Music · Comedy · Drama
Overview
Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is transferred from Aizu Wakamatsu City to Naraho Town to take over the Disaster PR Division. Murai takes Kokuhei around Fukushima including areas washed away by the tsunami. They examine the still incomplete railway lines, the unfinished decontamination area and villages in the danger zone, where deadly cesium continues to pile up. One day Kokuhei is told to organize a party to celebrate the professor who has been appointed as deputy director of the Atomic Energy Research Institute.
Top Cast


Daisuke Ryū
Daisuke Ryū
Kokuhei Kusunoki
Daisuke Ryū
Kokuhei Kusunoki


Minori Terada
Minori Terada
Murai
Minori Terada
Murai
Dekouto Miri
Dekouto Miri
Haruka
Dekouto Miri
Haruka
Yuna Keitoku
Yuna Keitoku
Umi
Yuna Keitoku
Umi


Nana Yanagisawa
Nana Yanagisawa
Nana Yanagisawa
Haruo Sekiguchi
Haruo Sekiguchi
Haruo Sekiguchi


Mitsunori Isaki
Mitsunori Isaki
Mitsunori Isaki


Takao Handa
Takao Handa
Takao Handa


Chisako Hara
Chisako Hara
Chisako Hara


Nami Tamura
Nami Tamura
Nami Tamura
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