Casting Blossoms to the Sky

この空の花 長岡花火物語

2012·160'

Nobuhiko Obayashi

WarDramaFantasy

Japanese

Letterboxd TMDB #127453

Stills

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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.

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