Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)
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.
- Released
- 2012-05-12
- Genres
- Fantasy, Drama, War
- Runtime
- 160 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Nobuhiko Obayashi, Nobuhiko Obayashi
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 from 16 votes
Cast
- Yasuko Matsuyuki as Reiko Endo
- Masahiro Takashima as Kenichi Katayama
- Natsuki Harada as Wakako Inoue
- Minami Inomata as Hana Motoki
- Saki Terashima as Young Ririko Motoki
- Toshio Kakei as Goro Matsushita
- Naoyuki Morita as Ryo Takahashi
- Mansaku Ikeuchi as Takashi Mishima
- Takashi Sasano as Akiyoshi Muraoka
- Koji Ishikawa as Kiyoshi Yamashita
- Sumiko Fuji as Ririko Motoki
- Shiho Fujimura as Kaoru Endo