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Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)

Directed by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi

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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.

Length 160 minutes

Actors

Yasuko Matsuyuki | Masahiro Takashima | Natsuki Harada | Minami Inomata | Saki Terashima | Toshio Kakei | Naoyuki Morita | Mansaku Ikeuchi | Takashi Sasano | Koji Ishikawa | Sumiko Fuji | Shiho Fujimura | Takahito Hosoyamada | Toshinori Omi | Takehiro Murata | Misako Renbutsu | Takuro Atsuki | Tôru Shinagawa | Akira Emoto | Chôei Takahashi | Shirô Namiki | Yuto Kobayashi | Mayuu Kusakari | Kanae Katsuno | Tomoko Hoshino | Toshie Negishi | Seina Suzuki | Tsurutaro Kataoka | Hiroshi Inuzuka | Masao Kusakari | Masayuki Yui | Bengal | Hirona Yamazaki | Shusaku Uchida