Tag: Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 2012 film ‘Casting Blossoms to the Sky’ stands as a poignant meditation on disaster, memory, and human resilience. Following the catastrophic 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeast coast, the film traces a journalist’s journey to Nagaoka, a city bearing its own scars from historical tragedy. Already ravaged by American bombing…