Casting Blossoms to the Sky
A journalist visits Nagaoka, once devastated by a WWII air raid, and discovers a stage play written by a mysterious student.
A film by Nobuhiko Obayashi
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- Released
- 2012
- Genre
- Drama
- Runtime
- 2h 40m
- Audio
- Stereo
- Subtitles
- English
- Quality
- HD
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85:1
About the film
The first of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s ‘Anti-War’ Trilogy.
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.
In Japanese, with English subtitles.
- Directed by
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Studio
- Third Window Films
- Distributed by
- Third Window Films
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Inside the film
Cast & crew
- Nobuhiko ObayashiDirector, Writer
- Kyoko ObayashiProducer
- Koji HasegawaWriter
- Yudai KatoCinematographer
- Hisaki SanbongiCinematographer
- Yasuko MatsuyukiActor · Reiko Endo
- Masahiro TakashimaActor · Kenichi Katayama
- Natsuki HaradaActor · Wakako Inoue
- Minami InomataActor
- Sumiko FujiActor
- Shiho FujimuraActor
