Light Up Nippon Premiere

Action for Japan UK is going to show, for the first time outside Japan, the film ‘LIGHT UP NIPPON.’ This is a documentary about the firework performance that was held along the coast of Japan last year in order to commemorate the victims of the Great East Earthquake, and to provide aid for the affected people.

On March 11th, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake happened. In the face of a perceived unprecedented disaster and the massive casualties, everyone across Japan was bending their head down, wondering how Japan can be reconstructed.

However, there was one man who kept looking up. He had the idea of a firework performance at the ten affected areas across the coast of East Japan. Although this performance was thought to be impossible to happen, it was the passion of one person and the local people’s zest for living that made this idea come true.

Narration: Hitomi Kuroki, Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Co-maker: the Japan Foundation