Yunagi City, Sakura Country

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Rena Tanaka

Nanami Ishikawa

Age : 43 | Popularity : 7%

Kumiko Aso

Minami Hirano

Age : 45 | Popularity : 17%

Hisashi Yoshizawa

Yutaka Uchikoshi

Age : 45 | Popularity : 3%

Noriko Nakagoshi

Toko Tone

Age : 44 | Popularity : 7%

Mitsunori Isaki

Asahi Ishikawa

Age : 47 | Popularity : 3%

Yuta Kanai

Nagio Ishikawa

Age : 39 | Popularity : 7%

Masaaki Sakai

Asahi Ishikawa (Old)

Age : 77 | Popularity : 8%

Shiho Fujimura

Fujimi Hirano

Age : 85 | Popularity : 5%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Lighting	Gaffer	Mitsuo Watanabe
Sound	Original Music Composer	Takatsugu Muramatsu
Production	Producer	Masaaki Usui Shin Yoneyama
	Executive Producer	Jun'ichi Matsushita
	Co-Executive Producer	Munehiro Umemura
	Development Producer	Tôji Katô
Writing	Screenplay	Kiyoshi Sasabe
	Writer	Kei Kunii
	Comic Book	Fumiyo Kouno
Directing	Director	Kiyoshi Sasabe
	Assistant Director	Ryo Yamamoto
Camera	Director of Photography	Masaaki Sakae
Crew	Post-Production Manager	Kenny Kusaka
Art	Production Design	Takaichi Wakamatsu
Department	Role	Name

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