The Days
2023 · Miniseries · TV-14 · ★ 7.8 · 48% critics
After a massive earthquake and tsunami, a nuclear power plant faces a deadly, invisible threat. As pressure mounts and information clashes with pride and protocol, workers, officials, and leaders scramble to contain an unprecedented disaster while time and uncertainty close in.
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Details
- Original title
- THE DAYS
- Years
- 2023
- Release date
- 2023-06-01
- Network
- Netflix
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- TV-14
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 48/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.8/10 (140 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a tense, detail-focused true-event disaster drama with a serious tone and moral pressure, somewhat akin to The Journalist; Not for you if you need fast pacing or action-forward thrills.
Pros: gripping real-world tension; informative technical context; strong sense of duty | Cons: very slow pacing; long reaction pauses; can feel drawn out
Themes
- japan
- based on novel or book
- nuclear power plant
- tsunami
- based on true story
- disaster
- catastrophe
- power company
- nuclear accidents
- fukushima disaster (2011)
- dark
- nuclear disaster
- +2 more
Cast & crew
Koji Yakusho
as Masao Yoshida
Yutaka Takenouchi
as Maekawa
Fumiyo Kohinata
as Azuma
Kaoru Kobayashi
as Furuya
Takuma Otoo
as Kinoshita
Ken Mitsuishi
as Murakami
Kenichi Endo
Yuriko Ishida
Yuki Izumisawa
Tomomi Maruyama
Directed by Masaki Nishiura, Hideo Nakata
Episodes1 season · 8 episodes
Season 18 episodes
- S1E1The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Is Submerged48mNetflix
- S1E2No Need to Evacuate53mNetflix
- S1E3Radioactive Emissions Will Be Minimal57mNetflix
- S1E4It Would Mean Turning Our Backs on Fukushima56mNetflix
- S1E5Our Company Has Lost Its Mind47mNetflix
- S1E6I Can No Longer Leave Here Alive53mNetflix
- S1E7Decide the Conditions for Evacuation55mNetflix
- S1E8A Scenario of Japan's Collapse66mNetflix