Film

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

2012 · 2h 40m · Fantasy · Drama · War

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

IMDb

7.2

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.

Yasuko Matsuyuki

Reiko Endo

Masahiro Takashima

Kenichi Katayama

Natsuki Harada

Wakako Inoue

Minami Inomata

Hana Motoki

Saki Terashima

Young Ririko Motoki

Toshio Kakei

Goro Matsushita

Naoyuki Morita

Ryo Takahashi

Mansaku Ikeuchi

Takashi Mishima

Takashi Sasano

Akiyoshi Muraoka

Koji Ishikawa

Kiyoshi Yamashita

Sumiko Fuji

Ririko Motoki

Shiho Fujimura

Kaoru Endo

Takahito Hosoyamada

Shojiro Atsumi

Toshinori Omi

Tadahiko Takayama

Takehiro Murata

Tamio Mori

Misako Renbutsu

Young Kaoru Endo

• Nobuhiko ObayashiDirector · Editor · Screenplay
• Kôji HasegawaWriter
• Chiga WatanabeExecutive Producer
• Kyōko ŌbayashiExecutive Producer
• Yudai KatoDirector of Photography
• Hisaki SanbongiDirector of Photography · Editor
• Joe HisaishiOriginal Music Composer
• Kosuke YamashitaOriginal Music Composer

Trailer [Subtitled]Casting Blossoms to the Sky Trailer

Release date

May 12, 2012

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 40m

Rated

15

Budget

$2,500,000

Genres

Fantasy, Drama, War