Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 9, 2017 4:10:21 GMT
Daigo Fukuryū Maru , Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959) Kaneto Shindo. A devastating true story of the reckless polluting and abuse of our natural environment.
Based on a real life incident the compelling film tells the tale of the radioactive exposure and subsequent sickness encountered by a Japanese fishing crew of 23 men aboard the vessel Daigo Fukuryū Maru
The crew were contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954.
The ship's navigator sees a flash, and the crew come up to watch. They realize and are obviously spooked that it is an atomic explosion, they take the time to clear their fishing gear, a short time later grey ash starts to fall on the ship. By the time the ship returns to port, the Daigo Fukuryū Maru crew have been burned brown...
The Daigo Fukuryū Maru had been catching fish outside a declared danger zone However, the test was more than twice as powerful than predicted , weather patterns that day blew nuclear fallout, in the form of a fine ash, well outside the declared danger zone.
Between 1946 and 1958, 23 nuclear devices were detonated at Bikini Atoll by the United States at seven test sites located on the reef, inside the atoll, in the air, or underwater...
Based on a real life incident the compelling film tells the tale of the radioactive exposure and subsequent sickness encountered by a Japanese fishing crew of 23 men aboard the vessel Daigo Fukuryū Maru
The crew were contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954.
The ship's navigator sees a flash, and the crew come up to watch. They realize and are obviously spooked that it is an atomic explosion, they take the time to clear their fishing gear, a short time later grey ash starts to fall on the ship. By the time the ship returns to port, the Daigo Fukuryū Maru crew have been burned brown...
The Daigo Fukuryū Maru had been catching fish outside a declared danger zone However, the test was more than twice as powerful than predicted , weather patterns that day blew nuclear fallout, in the form of a fine ash, well outside the declared danger zone.
Between 1946 and 1958, 23 nuclear devices were detonated at Bikini Atoll by the United States at seven test sites located on the reef, inside the atoll, in the air, or underwater...