Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Name: Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, War
Released: 2012-05-12
Duration: 2 h 40 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Masahiro Takashima, Natsuki Harada, Minami Inomata, Saki Terashima

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

2012

2h 40m

Fantasy Drama War

Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi

Writers: Kôji Hasegawa, Nobuhiko Obayashi

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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.