Iconic Japanese filmmaker envisioned multiple reactors exploding near Tokyo in 1990

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998, pictured at left), one of the most famous filmmakers in Japan and indeed internationally, depicted multiple atomic reactors exploding in quick succession in the "Mount Fuji in Red" segment of his 1990 film "Dreams," released 21 years before the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe unfolded in reality. A blog written a week after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe began commented on Kurosawa's prescience. Kurosawa depicted "nuclear nightmares" in other of his films, including his 1955 "I Live in Fear" and his 1991 "Rhapsody in August" touching on the Japanese experience of atomic bombs.