TOKYO -- Chie Hayakawa was in fifth grade when she figured out that she wanted to be a movie director when she grew up.
Director Chie Hayakawa says the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit north-central Japan in March 2011, setting off the Fukushima nuclear disaster, galvanized her plunge into professional filmmaking. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)
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