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Casting Blossoms to the Sky
JAPAN · 2012

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Nobuhiko Obayashi
disaster recovery intergenerational trauma resilience and rebuilding journalistic inquiry theatrical storytelling
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Synopsis

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.

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