Casting Blossoms to the Sky

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.

CAST

Yasuko MatsuyukiReiko Endo

Masahiro TakashimaKenichi Katayama

Natsuki HaradaWakako Inoue

Minami InomataHana Motoki

Saki TerashimaYoung Ririko Motoki

Toshio KakeiGoro Matsushita

Naoyuki MoritaRyo Takahashi

Mansaku IkeuchiTakashi Mishima

Takashi SasanoAkiyoshi Muraoka

Koji IshikawaKiyoshi Yamashita

Sumiko FujiRiriko Motoki

Shiho FujimuraKaoru Endo

Takahito HosoyamadaShojiro Atsumi

Toshinori OmiTadahiko Takayama

Takehiro MurataTamio Mori