Yunagi City, Sakura Country

Yunagi City, Sakura Country (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.

Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe
Writer: Kiyoshi Sasabe

Casts

	Rena Tanaka as Nanami Ishikawa
	Kumiko Aso as Minami Hirano
	Hisashi Yoshizawa as Yutaka Uchikoshi
	Noriko Nakagoshi as Toko Tone
	Mitsunori Isaki as Asahi Ishikawa
	Yuta Kanai as Nagio Ishikawa
	Masaaki Sakai as Asahi Ishikawa (Old)
	Shiho Fujimura as Fujimi Hirano
	Ryosei Tayama as Yutaka Uchikoshi (Old)
	Urara Awata as Kyoka Ota
	Asami Katsura as
	Miki Matsumoto as
	Shunta Watanabe as
	Rina Koike as
	Miyuki Komagata as
	Takayo Mimura as
	Saburo Tamura as

Crew