Casting Blossoms to the Sky

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

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.

  • Genre: Fantasy, Drama, War
  • Release Date: 2012-05-12
  • Runtime: 160 min
  • Country: Japan
  • Language: Japanese
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 6.6
Casting Blossoms to the Sky poster