Casting Blossoms to the Sky

May. 12,2012      
Rating:
7.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Yasuko Matsuyuki as  Reiko Endo
Masahiro Takashima as  Kenichi Katayama
Natsuki Harada as  Wakako Inoue
Saki Terashima as  Young Ririko Motoki
Toshio Kakei as  Goro Matsushita
Mansaku Ikeuchi as  Takashi Mishima
Takashi Sasano as  Akiyoshi Muraoka
Sumiko Fuji as  Ririko Motoki
Shiho Fujimura as  Kaoru Endo
Takahito Hosoyamada as  Shojiro Atsumi

Reviews

BootDigest
2012/05/12

Such a frustrating disappointment

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Mjeteconer
2012/05/13

Just perfect...

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Stephan Hammond
2012/05/14

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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Aneesa Wardle
2012/05/15

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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