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.
| Release Date | May 12, 2012 | |
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| Status | Released | |
| Original Title | この空の花 長岡花火物語 | |
| Runtime | 2h 40min | |
| Budget | — | |
| Revenue | — | |
| Language | Japanese | |
| Original Language | Japanese | |
| Production Countries | Japan | |
| Production Companies | PSC | |