Casting Blossoms to the Sky
この空の花 長岡花火物語
Casting Blossoms to the Sky On Soap2Day. 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.
- Genre: Fantasy, Drama, War
- Country: Japan
- Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Cast: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Masahiro Takashima, Natsuki Harada, Minami Inomata, Saki Terashima, Toshio Kakei, Naoyuki Morita, Mansaku Ikeuchi, Takashi Sasano, Koji Ishikawa, Sumiko Fuji, Shiho Fujimura, Takahito Hosoyamada, Toshinori Omi, Takehiro Murata, Misako Renbutsu, Takuro Atsuki, Tōru Shinagawa, Akira Emoto, Chōei Takahashi, Shirô Namiki,