Casting Blossoms to the Sky
“Kono sora no hana: Nagaoka hanabi monogatari”
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Japan 2011/160 min.
Japanese with English subtitles
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Screening “Casting Blossoms to the Sky” & Director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s appearance in person
Sunday, May 12, 2:30 pm – 6:30 pm at Miyako Hybrid Hotel in Torrance
＄20 (Only Torrance）
For tickets, visit www.jffla.org
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Screening Only
Sunday, May 19, 2:00pm at Yamaha Music Center in Irvine
Sunday, May 26, 2:45pm at Pi:K (San Diego)
＄10 for screening only. No Obashi appearance in person at Irvine and San Diego.
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The Nagaoka fireworks in remembrance of the air raid of 1945 serve as a symbol of peace and hope.
With this inspiration, filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi arranged the stories of various people in postwar Japan in an extremely fast paced semi-documentary-drama that seeks to encourage people to overcome the present situation and presents the terror of war through a truly unique visual appeal. (Source: NipponConnection.Com)