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Casting Blossoms to the Sky
“If people made pretty fireworks instead of bombs there wouldn't have been any wars.”
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitants and stumbles upon a stage play written by an enigmatic student of her ex-boyfriend.
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, Chiga Watanabe, Kyōko Ōbayashi
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User score
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Status
Released
Released
May 12, 2012
Runtime
2h 40m
Language
Japanese
Budget → Revenue
$2.5M → —
Top cast
Yasuko Matsuyuki
Reiko Endo
Masahiro Takashima
Kenichi Katayama
Natsuki Harada
Wakako Inoue
Minami Inomata
Hana Motoki
Saki Terashima
Young Ririko Motoki
Toshio Kakei
Goro Matsushita
Naoyuki Morita
Ryo Takahashi
Mansaku Ikeuchi
Takashi Mishima
Takashi Sasano
Akiyoshi Muraoka
Koji Ishikawa
Kiyoshi Yamashita
Sumiko Fuji
Ririko Motoki
Shiho Fujimura
Kaoru Endo
Takahito Hosoyamada
Shojiro Atsumi
Toshinori Omi
Tadahiko Takayama
Takehiro Murata
Tamio Mori
Misako Renbutsu
Young Kaoru Endo
Takuro Atsuki
Sadao Motoki
Tōru Shinagawa
Sumio Shinkai
Akira Emoto
Seijiro Nose
Choei Takahashi
Fumihiko Sato
