Under the Nagasaki Sky (2013)
Overview
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.
Cast
Kie Kitano
Kiyomi Kadota
Izumi Inamori
Saori Takamori
Yuya Yagira
Yuichi Hirose
Chizuru Ikewaki
Mihoko Takamori
Shiro Sano
Morikazu Kadota
Junko Miyashita
Takie Takamori
Takahiro Hōjō
Kota Yamaguchi
Renji Ishibashi
Ryoichi Takamori
Minayo Watanabe
Akiko Kadota
Tetta Sugimoto
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