JAPAN · 2012
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Japanese New Wave
disaster recovery
intergenerational trauma
resilience and rebuilding
journalistic inquiry
theatrical storytelling
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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