Yunagi City, Sakura Country
Thirteen years afterward, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: 'We did it! We were able to kill another person!' They should be," murmurs Minami (played by Kumiko Aso), one of the two leading female characters in Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni, as she lies dying in 1958, her life brought to a premature end by sickness resulting from her exposure to atomic bomb radiation. This is a story about those who at least initially survived the first U.S. atomic bombing of 1945 and their descendants in contemporary times. The film, based on a comic by Fumiyo Kono, jumps between the two time frames and quietly depicts the sorrow and mortification experienced through the everyday lives of laid-back and soft-spoken Hiroshima people. Only a few scenes of the bombing and the ensuing devastation are featured.
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Thirteen years afterward, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: 'We did it! We were able to kill another person!' They should be," murmurs Minami (played by Kumiko Aso), one of the two leading female characters in Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni, as she lies dying in 1958, her life brought to a premature end by sickness resulting from her exposure to atomic bomb radiation. This is a story about those who at least initially survived the first U.S. atomic bombing of 1945 and their descendants in contemporary times. The film, based on a comic by Fumiyo Kono, jumps between the two time frames and quietly depicts the sorrow and mortification experienced through the everyday lives of laid-back and soft-spoken Hiroshima people. Only a few scenes of the bombing and the ensuing devastation are featured.
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Written By:Kiyoshi Sasabe, Kei Kunii
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Runtime:118 minutes
Studio:Art Port, Big Shot Productions, Fukuoka Broadcasting System, Futabasha, SEGA, Sumitomo Corporation, Yomiuri Shimbun Company, TFC, Tokyu Recreation, Tsuburaya Entertainment, Tokyo FM, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Cast
Kiyoshi Sasabe
Director
Rena Tanaka
Nanami Ishikawa
Kumiko Aso
Minami Hirano
Hisashi Yoshizawa
Yutaka Uchikoshi
Noriko Nakagoshi
Toko Tone
Mitsunori Isaki
Asahi Ishikawa
Yuta Kanai
Nagio Ishikawa
Masaaki Sakai
Asahi Ishikawa (Old)
Shiho Fujimura
Fujimi Hirano
Ryosei Tayama
Yutaka Uchikoshi (Old)
Urara Awata
Kyoka Ota
Asami Katsura
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