Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi

With Yasuko Matsuyuki, Masahiro Takashima, Natsuki Harada, Minami Inomata and Saki Terashima

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.