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 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