‘The Days’ and the Japanese tragedy that inspires the Netflix drama

June has started and Netflix has started with its many premieres from the first minutes of this month, since it has launched several major titles, one of them has come from Japan, it is the original miniseries ‘The days’, a production that has started to gain popularity on this platform, making many subscribers wonder if it is based on real events.

‘The Days’ is available at Netflix since last June 1, a series that can be seen quickly because it has eight chapters of just over 40 minutes each, an original Japanese title that has a history of drama, suspense and intrigue, showing a plot that unfolds in a nuclear disaster.

This Japanese series from the streaming giant shows how, after an earthquake and a tsunami that hit Japan, a nuclear power plant suffers a serious blackout causing a situation of imminent danger, since it begins to release radiation for a large sector of the country, a bit like what happened in Soviet Union in the 80s.

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If you are interested in watching this miniseries and wondering if this storyline happened in reality, you should know that it did, because ‘The days’ Netflix is ​​based on true events that took place in March 2011 in Japandate in which, as this production demonstrates, the Asian country was severely hit by an earthquake, which was followed by a devastating and deadly tsunami.

‘The days’ faces the true story of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disasterfocusing on the 7 days of facing the greatest danger in the aforementioned Japanese nuclear power plant, an unprecedented challenge for the Asian country, a story that is shown in this Netflix series from three different perspectives of this disaster.

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Undoubtedly, the story that proves it miniseries original within the catalog of the streaming giant is very interesting, a title that has already begun to attract millions of subscribers of this platform, because, despite having only a few hours from its release, it is already positioned within the public charts for this service.

Having an interesting story that takes place in just a few episodes, ‘The days’ has become a great option for the marathon Netflixa production that adds to the numerous dramatic miniseries offered by the streaming giant, and it is very likely that this platform will launch more of these titles during 2023.