Casting Blossoms to the Sky
If people made pretty fireworks instead of bombs there wouldn't have been any wars.
160 mins
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.
Minami Inomata
Hana Motoki
Naoyuki Morita
Ryo Takahashi
Koji Ishikawa
Kiyoshi Yamashita
Yuto Kobayashi
Shintaro Sone
Kôji Hasegawa
Writer
Kôichi Takeuchi
Art Direction
Kujô Sanbongi
Director of Photography
Chiga Watanabe
Executive Producer
Terumichi Yamazaki
Production Manager
Kyōko Ōbayashi
Executive Producer
Kujô Sanbongi
Editor
Fumio Iwasaki
Costume Design
Chieko Waguri
Makeup Artist
Yudai Kato
Director of Photography
Masao Takeshita
Assistant Director
Kosuke Yamashita
Original Music Composer