Under the Nagasaki Sky
爆心長崎の空
Drama
Film adaptation of an original story from Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Director and Akutagawa Prize winner Yuichi Seirai, directed by Taro Hyugaji, who made the live-action version of Grave of the Fireflies. Depicts the fateful encounter between a daughter whose mother has died and a mother whose daughter has died. Jazz pianist Makoto Ozone makes his debut as a film composer. University student Kiyomi (Kie Kitano) is wracked by guilt after her mother dies of a heart attack the night they have an argument. Meanwhile, Saori (Izumi Inamori) finds out she is pregnant, but her daughter died a year before, and she is terrified of losing another child.
2013-07-13
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Cast
Director
Taro Hyugaji
Kie Kitano as Kiyomi Kadota
Izumi Inamori as Saori Takamori
Yuya Yagira as Yuichi Hirose
Chizuru Ikewaki as Mihoko Takamori
Shiro Sano as Morikazu Kadota
Junko Miyashita as Takie Takamori
Takahiro Hōjō as Kota Yamaguchi
Renji Ishibashi as Ryoichi Takamori
Minayo Watanabe as Akiko Kadota
Tetta Sugimoto as Hiroyoshi Takamori