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Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Lucy Walker’s “Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom,” goes to the epicenter of the natural disaster that struck Japan in 2011. The Academy-award nominated documentary filmmaker shoots during Cherry Blossom season, a powerful cultural image in Japan that speaks to rebirth and renewal.
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Filmmaker Lucy Walker filmed along the northeastern coast of Japan in 2011 the weeks after the Fukushima disaster. (All photos courtesy Lucy Walker)
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The March 2011 tsunami reduced entire towns to rubble.
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Logistics were difficult for the film crew, given the broken roads, lack of bottled water and energy black outs.
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Broken road in Japan after the tsunami