Yunagi City, Sakura Country

Yunagi City, Sakura Country

Yûnagi no machi sakura no kuni
🎞️ Movie 118 min JP
โ˜… 7.1 /10 2007

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.

Cast

Rena Tanaka
Rena Tanaka
Nanami Ishikawa
Kumiko Asô
Kumiko Asô
Minami Hirano
Hisashi Yoshizawa
Hisashi Yoshizawa
Yutaka Uchikoshi - young
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Noriko Nakagoshi
Toko Tone
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Mitsunori Isaki
Asahi Ishikawa - young
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Yûta Kanai
Nagio Ishikawa
Ryôsei Tayama
Ryôsei Tayama
Yutaka Uchikoshi - adult
Urara Awata
Urara Awata
Kyoka Ota
Shiho Fujimura
Shiho Fujimura
Fujimi Hirano
Masaaki Sakai
Masaaki Sakai
Asahi Ishikawa - adult
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Takatsugu Muramatsu
Composer
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Masaaki Sakae
Cinematographer