
"If people made pretty fireworks instead of bombs there wouldn't have been any wars."
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.
Reiko Endo

Kenichi Katayama

Wakako Inoue

Hana Motoki
Young Ririko Motoki

Goro Matsushita

Ryo Takahashi
Takashi Mishima

Akiyoshi Muraoka

Kiyoshi Yamashita
Ririko Motoki

Kaoru Endo

Shojiro Atsumi

Tadahiko Takayama

Tamio Mori

Young Kaoru Endo

Sadao Motoki

Sumio Shinkai

Seijiro Nose

Fumihiko Sato

Yasunari Motomura

Shintaro Sone

Rui Hatayama

Nobuko Satonaka

Fumiko Nose

Yae Nose

Jiro Nakahata's Eldest Daughter

Makoto Nose

Tsurukichi Nose

Hanagata Juzaro

Zenjiro Hanyu

Jiro Nakahata

Nozomi Yuge

Unknown Role