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.

Fantasy Drama War

Yasuko Matsuyuki

Masahiro Takashima

(Kenichi Katayama)

Natsuki Harada

Minami Inomata

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

Takahito Hosoyamada

(Shojiro Atsumi)

Toshinori Omi

(Tadahiko Takayama)

Takehiro Murata

Misako Renbutsu

(Young Kaoru Endo)

Takuro Atsuki

Tōru Shinagawa

(Sumio Shinkai)

Akira Emoto

Chōei Takahashi

(Fumihiko Sato)

Shirô Namiki

(Yasunari Motomura)

Yuto Kobayashi

(Shintaro Sone)

Mayuu Kusakari

Kanae Katsuno

(Nobuko Satonaka)

Tomoko Hoshino

Toshie Negishi

Seina Suzuki

(Jiro Nakahata's Eldest Daughter)

Tsurutaro Kataoka

Hiroshi Inuzuka

(Tsurukichi Nose)

Masao Kusakari

(Hanagata Juzaro)

Masayuki Yui

(Zenjiro Hanyu)

Bengal

(Jiro Nakahata)

Hirona Yamazaki

Shusaku Uchida