


“If people made pretty fireworks instead of bombs there wouldn't have been any wars.”
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
Writers
Kôji Hasegawa, Nobuhiko Obayashi
Release Date
May 12, 2012
Runtime
2h 40m
Status
Released
Original Language
ja
Vote Count
13
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