Director(s): Nobuhiko Obayashi
Cast: Masahiro Takashima, Natsuki Harada
Producer(s): Kyôko Ôbayashi
The first of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s ‘Anti-War’ Trilogy
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitants and stumbles upon a stage play written by an enigmatic student of her ex-boyfriend.
