NHK WORLD PRIME
Season 2 Episode 24 - An 18-Year-Old's Departure
7 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, actress Alice Hirose visits Otsuchi Town in Iwate Prefecture. She meets a father and son who lost 4 family members in the tsunami. The father was struggling with the guilt of not being able to save his beloved family. The son, Yuki, was 11 years old when he suddenly lost his mother, younger brother, and grandparents. He gradually began to close off his heart. Now at 18, Yuki is preparing his departure away from his hometown. He opens his heart up to Alice and shares his pains from the past 7 years. As they grow closer, Yuki and Alice find a common bond in their struggles as teenagers.
Episodes in Season 2
One Last Vision: A Photographer's Final Journey
49 min
Between Two Homes: A 102-Year Old Japanese Woman in South Korea
50 min
Strategy Gone Awry: Revisiting the US Air Raids on Japan
49 min
Valens's Return Home: A Rwandan Genocide Offender 22 Years On
49 min
Chasing the Father's Shadow: Vietnamese Children of Japanese Soldiers
The Fisherman and the Forest
50 min
Setsuko Thurlow's Quest: A World Without Nuclear Weapons
50 min
Tsuruko's Tea Journey
50 min
The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 1
49 min
The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 2
49 min
Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Underground Website Murder
26 min
Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Wakayama Curry Poisoning Incident
25 min
Survivor Trees: Hiroshima Revealed
49 min
I Was a Caged Bird: Psychiatric Hospitalization in Japan
Nike's Backstory: Unknown Bonds with Japan
49 min
A Life with Flowers
50 min
Houses for Peace: Exploring the Legacy of Floyd Schmoe
50 min
Mt. Ishizuchi: Mountain of the Gods
43 min
Hearing the Voices of Nagasaki Survivors
49 min
A World of Boisterous Silence
50 min
Life at the Bottom of China's Labor Market
50 min
China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 1
49 min
China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 2
49 min
An 18-Year-Old's Departure
47 min
The Pianist in the Rubble
49 min
Manzanar Revealed
49 min
