Akira Kurosawa, arguably Japan's greatest film director, released a film called "Dreams" in 1990. The film is a depiction, in eight short vignettes, of Kurosawa's actual dreams. One of the segments is called "Mt Fuji in Red," and portrays the explosion of six nuclear reactors in Japan.
The sequence is described as follows:
Mount Fuji in Red
The film's second nightmare sequence. A large nuclear power plant near Mount Fuji has begun to melt down, painting the sky a horrendous red and sending the millions of Japanese citizens desperately fleeing into the ocean. Three adults and two children are left behind on land, but they soon realize that the radiation will kill them anyway.
Here is the segment, about eight minutes long.
Some commentary:
There is no definitive end to this act and the premise is as bleak as it is terrifying. While such icons as 'Godzilla' is representative of the horrors of nuclear weapons, Mt Fuji in Red directly reflects the sensibilities and fears of the Japanese people, who know firsthand the horrors of nuclear technology during the second World War. Akira Kurosawa, being alive during the second World War and during the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, may have rightly had recurring nightmares that reflect the horrors of that period of his life.
The tragic irony that the Japanese people alone have been subjected to the consequences of both the wartime and peacetime use of nuclear power probably has not sunken in to most Western media. The nuclear spectre still lives in the psyche of a large portion of Japan's aged population. This may or may not be the end of nuclear power in Japan and elsewhere, depending upon the events of the next 24 hours.