TMDb Rating
6.9/10
13 verified votes
Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)
FantasyDramaWar
160 min
"If people made pretty fireworks instead of bombs there wouldn't have been any wars."
Plot Summary
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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Keywords to include
FantasyDramaWarNobuhiko ObayashiYasuko MatsuyukiMasahiro Takashima2012
Director
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Top Cast
Yasuko MatsuyukiMasahiro TakashimaNatsuki HaradaMinami InomataSaki Terashima
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