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Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

If people made pretty fireworks instead of bombs there wouldn't have been any wars.

20126.92h 40m

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.

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Written by Kôji Hasegawa, Nobuhiko Obayashi
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Top Cast

Yasuko Matsuyuki

Yasuko Matsuyuki

Reiko Endo

Masahiro Takashima

Masahiro Takashima

Kenichi Katayama

Natsuki Harada

Natsuki Harada

Wakako Inoue

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Minami Inomata

Hana Motoki

Saki Terashima

Saki Terashima

Young Ririko Motoki

Toshio Kakei

Toshio Kakei

Goro Matsushita

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Naoyuki Morita

Ryo Takahashi

Mansaku Ikeuchi

Mansaku Ikeuchi

Takashi Mishima

Takashi Sasano

Takashi Sasano

Akiyoshi Muraoka

K

Koji Ishikawa

Kiyoshi Yamashita

About Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Casting Blossoms to the Sky is a fantasy, drama, war film released in 2012. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, it stars Yasuko Matsuyuki, Masahiro Takashima, Natsuki Harada. 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.

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