2012
Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)
"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.
Nobuhiko Obayashi
160 min
Japan
DirectorNobuhiko Obayashi
CastMasahiro Takashima, Minami Inomata, Natsuki Harada, Saki Terashima, Toshio Kakei, Yasuko Matsuyuki
CountryJapan
Duration160 min
