Casting Blossoms to the Sky
If people made pretty fireworks instead of bombs there wouldn't have been any wars.
Overview
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
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