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Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
“If people made pretty fireworks instead of bombs there wouldn't have been any wars.”
Fantasy, Drama, War · 2h 40m
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
Yasuko Matsuyuki
Reiko Endo
Masahiro Takashima
Kenichi Katayama
Natsuki Harada
Wakako Inoue
M
Minami Inomata
Hana Motoki
Saki Terashima
Young Ririko Motoki
Toshio Kakei
Goro Matsushita
N
Naoyuki Morita
Ryo Takahashi
Mansaku Ikeuchi
Takashi Mishima
Takashi Sasano
Akiyoshi Muraoka
K
Koji Ishikawa
Kiyoshi Yamashita
Sumiko Fuji
Ririko Motoki
Shiho Fujimura
Kaoru Endo
Crew
- Director
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Screenplay
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Writer
- Kôji Hasegawa
- Director of Photography
- Hisaki Sanbongi, Yudai Kato
- Original Music Composer
- Joe Hisaishi, Kosuke Yamashita
- Editor
- Nobuhiko Obayashi, Hisaki Sanbongi
Details
- Original title
- この空の花 長岡花火物語
- Release date
- 2012-05-12
- Runtime
- 2h 40m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Drama, War
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- PSC
- Budget
- $2,500,000