Casting Blossoms to the Sky
May 12 2012
•3h 40m
•Fantasy, Drama, War
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
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Yasuko Matsuyuki
Reiko Endo
Masahiro Takashima
Kenichi Katayama
Natsuki Harada
Wakako Inoue
Minami Inomata
Hana Motoki
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