Casting Blossoms to the Sky
この空の花 長岡花火物語
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.
- Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
- Actors: Masahiro Takashima, Minami Inomata, Natsuki Harada, Saki Terashima, Yasuko Matsuyuki
