Casting Blossoms to the Sky

この空の花 長岡花火物語

2012·160'

Nobuhiko Obayashi

WarDramaFantasy

★ 6.9

Letterboxd TMDB #127453

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.

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