Casting Blossoms to the Sky 2012
"If people made pretty fireworks instead of bombs there wouldn't have been any wars."
Overview
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.
Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
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
