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Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 12, 2012

Runtime

2h 40m

Genres

Fantasy, Drama, War

User Score

66%

Original Title

この空の花 長岡花火物語

Production Companies

PSC

Director

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Description

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.