The Land of Hope DVD
Prolific Japanese director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Himizu) departs from his usual style for this movingly restrained drama of a rural family's struggle to survive in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and the resulting nuclear crisis.
In the fictional Nagashima prefecture, Yoichi Ono (Jun Murakami) lives a peaceful life with his wife Izumi (Megumi Kagurazaka), and his parents Yasuhiko (Isao Natsuyagi) and Chieko (Naoko Otani), on the family’s small farm.
One day, an earthquake disrupts the calm, causing the reactor at a nearby nuclear power plant to explode.
The Nagashima community is directly within the twenty-kilometre evacuation radius - except for the Ono farm.
Haunted by memories of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in which evacuees were forced out of their homes permanently, the Onos are faced with a terrible decision: stay and risk the possibility of radiation poisoning, or leave the home their family has spent generations building.
The Land of Hope is released on DVD & Blu-Ray on 26th August