The Land of Hope
2012 · Movie · Not Rated · 133 min · ★ 6.1 · 55% critics
After a devastating earthquake triggers a nuclear disaster, a rural family is split by an evacuation line that runs through their farm. As fear, uncertainty, and everyday survival reshape their lives, they must face impossible choices about home, safety, and staying together.
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Details
- Original title
- 希望の国
- Years
- 2012
- Release date
- 2012-10-20
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Critic score
- 55/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 (55 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a thoughtful, emotionally intense disaster drama focused on family, fear, and resilience, with some of the human warmth found in Voices in the Wind; Not for you if you want fast pacing or escapist comfort.
Pros: moving human drama; timely social parallels; emotionally powerful | Cons: slow stretches; heavy subject matter; occasional melodrama
Themes
- evacuation
- earthquake
- great east japan earthquake
Cast & crew
Isao Natsuyagi
as Yasuhiko Ono
Naoko Ohtani
as Chieko Ono
Jun Murakami
as Yoichi Ono
Megumi Kagurazaka
as Izumi Ono
Yutaka Shimizu
as Mitsuru Suzuki
Hikari Kajiwara
as Yoko
Daikichi Sugawara
as Shimura
Takashi Yamanaka
as Kato
Kenzō Kawarasaki
as Gynecologist
Mariko Tsutsui
as Meiko Suzuki
Directed by Sion Sono