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JAPAN · 2012
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Japanese New Wave
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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