Hitomi Kamanaka

Director Hitomi Kamanaka has been exploring this issue through a series of documentary films. Since 2003 she has been trying to raise awareness in Japan for the dangers of nuclear energy through her films. Ashes to Honey, is the third film of a trilogy. The first film "HIBAKUSHA at the end of the world" is about radiation victims in Iraq, Japan and USA. The second one called "Rokkashomura rhapsody"is about a nuclear reprocessing fuel plant.

A Diretora Hitomi Kamanaka tem explorado a questão nuclear para realizar uma série de documentários. Desde 2003, ela vem tentando aumentar a conscientização no Japão, através de seus filmes, para os perigos da energia nuclear. Ashes to Honey é o terceiro filme de uma trilogia. O primeiro filme "Hibakusha at the end of the word” (Hibakusha até o fim do mundo) é sobre as vítimas de radiação no Iraque, Japão e EUA. O segundo filme, chamado "Rokkashomura rhapsody " (Rapsódia Rokkashomura) é sobre uma usina Rokkashomura de reprocessamento de combustível nuclear. 

Hibakusha at the End of the World
Japão, 2003, 116 min, japonês, legendas em inglês Documentário Classificação indicativa 12 Hibakusha é o nome em japonês dado para vítimas da radioatividade em várias partes do mundo. A radioatividade se espalha: instalações nucleares dos EUA , uso de bombas e foguetes de urânio no Iraque, passando por Hiroshima onde até hoje sobreviventes estão sofrendo.
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Ashes To Honey: For Searching a Sustainable Future
Japan, 2010, 116 min. English For 28 years, the people of Iwaishima Island, living in the middle of the bountiful Inland Sea, have been opposing a plan to build a nuclear power plant. The island has a 1000 - year history during which people have preserved their traditional festival. Takashi, the youngest on the island , is struggling to earn his living. He dreams of a life based on sustainable energy. Meanwhile, communities in Sweden are making an effort to implement such lives. The people living in the Arctic circle have taken action to overcome damage from the global economy. On Iwaishima, Mr. Ujimoto has begun sustainable agriculture by reclaiming aban-doned farmlands. But a power company tries to fill in a bay to create man-made land. The people of the island set sail together to...
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Rokkasho Rhapsody
Japan, 2006, 102 min, English Latin American Premiere The film sets in Rokkashomura in the northern part of Japan, where they have built a nuclear reprocessing fuel plant in 2004. This fuel reprocessing plant is for recycling nuclear power by removing plutonium from used nuclear power fuel. This film shows the various lives of the people that live in Rokkashomura and how they are living with the new nuclear reprocessing plant. A lady in the village pursues her activism in order to stop the reprocessing plant. She grows tulips to help raise awareness of what Rokkashomura still has to offer. She even held a farmers market and told each customer "these maybe the last organic plants you can buy without any radiation". This fuel reprocessing plant has divided Rokkashomura into people for...
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