Yunagi City, Sakura Country
- Kiyoshi Sasabe
- 1h 58m
- July 28, 2007 · Japan
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 28, 2007
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- SEGA,TFC,Sumitomo Corporation,Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation,Fukuoka Broadcasting System,Futabasha,Tokyo FM,Yomiuri Shimbun Company,Tokyu Recreation,Big Shot Productions,Art Port,Tsuburaya Entertainment,Yomiuri Television
- Cast
- Rena Tanaka,Yuta Kanai,Miki Matsumoto,Rina Koike,Hisashi Yoshizawa,Shiho Fujimura,Shunta Watanabe,Mitsunori Isaki,Saburo Tamura,Miyuki Komagataand 7 more
- Director
- Kiyoshi Sasabe
- Cinematography
- Masaaki Sakae
- Music
- Takatsugu Muramatsu
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
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