Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)
Original title: この空の花 長岡花火物語
Casting Blossoms to the Sky is a 2012 Japanese-language fantasy movie directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, with a running time of 2h 40m. It stars Yasuko Matsuyuki, Masahiro Takashima and Natsuki Harada.
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.
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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