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Casting Blossoms to the Sky

2012-05-12

Fantasy.Drama.War.2 hrs 40 mins

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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