Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012, Japanese. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi.
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.
- Runtime
- 2h 40m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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Cast & crew
- Nobuhiko ObayashiDirector
- Yasuko MatsuyukiReiko Endo
- Masahiro TakashimaKenichi Katayama
- Natsuki HaradaWakako Inoue
- Minami InomataHana Motoki
- Saki TerashimaYoung Ririko Motoki
- Toshio KakeiGoro Matsushita
- Naoyuki MoritaRyo Takahashi
- Mansaku IkeuchiTakashi Mishima
- Takashi SasanoAkiyoshi Muraoka
- Koji IshikawaKiyoshi Yamashita
- Sumiko FujiRiriko Motoki
- Shiho FujimuraKaoru Endo
Details
- Released
- 12 May 2012
- Original title
- この空の花 長岡花火物語
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Kôji Hasegawa, Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Budget
- $2.5M
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Casting Blossoms to the Sky runs 160 minutes (2h 40m).
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Casting Blossoms to the Sky is streaming on Fandor, OVID, and AsianCrush in India. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
What movies are like Casting Blossoms to the Sky?
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Who directed Casting Blossoms to the Sky?
Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012) was directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi and stars Yasuko Matsuyuki, Masahiro Takashima, Natsuki Harada.